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Bulgaria: Sofia Mayor's Party Ready for the Thick of Fight for MEP Seats

Tsvetan Tsvetanov (R), until recently Borissov's right-hand man in Sofia municipality and now leader of GERB, has often conceded he is not the real leader of the recently minted party. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

Bulgaria's election body officially registered for the May 20 European Parliament vote the center-rightist GERB party, inspired and established last year by the mayor of the capital.

"We have just received the documents for running in the elections on May 20," GERB leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov said Saturday morning.

GERB was the first party to sign up for the European parliamentarians vote after submitting a list of over 20,000 signatures in the morning of March 26, the first day of registration at the Central Election Committee.

The party ranks second in opinion polls ahead of the vote due to the high approval ranking of its unofficial leader, Sofia mayor and the country's former top cop Boyko Borisov.

Bulgarian voters will head to the ballot boxes on May 20 to elect for the first time their representatives in the European Parliament.

Currently Bulgaria has 18 and Romania 35 MEPs at the European Parliament. They enjoy full-fledged rights, but are delegated by their parliamentary represented parties instead of elected by general suffrage.

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