Left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party's leader Sergey Stanishev accused Prime Minister Boyko Borisov of having kissed the leader of ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party Ahmed Dogan.
The invalid ballots from the October 23 presidential vote are 229 844 or 6.4% of all ballots cast, Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has informed.
The opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) reiterated threats they will ask for annulment of the results of the October 23 presidential and local elections, but only after the conclusion of the runoff this Sunday.
All members of voting polls' electoral commissions will receive BGN 10 more on top of their regular pay Sunday, the day when the runoff of presidential and local elections is held in Bulgaria.
Outgoing Sliven Mayor Yordan Lechkov has been banned from leaving the country by way of a measure of restraint, said Plamen Stefanov, District Prosecutor at the southeastern Bulgarian city.
Bulgaria's Greens party has officially requested the annulment of the election results in the capital Sofia by submitting a claim with the Sofia Administrative Court.
The October 23 presidential and local elections are an unprecedented in the last 20 years failure, according to Sergey Stanishev, leader of the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has confirmed he remains unafraid of a potential re-vote after the chaos surrounding the October 23 "2 in 1" elections.
173 out of 264 Bulgarian municipalities will vote for mayors in a second round upcoming Sunday, after none of the candidates got 50% of the vote on the first round October 23, according to information by the Central Electoral Commission.
The Sunday presidential race run-off is about upholding the very democracy in Bulgaria, and not about left-right divisions, stated Bulgarian Socialist Party candidate Ivaylo Kalfin Thursday.
Bulgaria's Central Election Commission has admitted that 35 election protocols from the Sunday mayor elections in Bulgarian capital Sofia are missing.
Ivaylo Kalfin and Stefan Danailov, presidential and vice-presidential nominees of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have won the majority of the votes cast by Bulgarians living abroad.
Several days after the October 23 local and presidential elections, allegations still linger that an unspecified number of Bulgarians have been deprived of their right to vote due to inconsistencies in the databases of GRAO and the Interior.
Bulgarian ruling GERB party presidential candidate Rosen Plevneliev has reiterated his claim that his rival in the race, socialist Ivaylo Kalfin, would be a destablizing factor for Bulgaria if elected.
The results of Sunday's elections held in the southern Bulgarian village of Voivodovo may be canceled after 50 ballots were found hidden in a drawer at the premises of the sectional electoral commission.
The poor organization of the election process could incur administrative, political or some other type of liability except for criminal, Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev said Thursday, commenting on the October 23 presidential and local vote.
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has finally announced the official results from Sunday's presidential election in the country.
The electoral administration servicing the October 23 "2 in 1" vote is still accepting protocols although the statutory deadline for the announcement of the official results expired more than 19 hours ago, according to Biser Troyanov, Spokesperson of the
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will seek a cancellation of the vote in the capital due to the chaos surrounding the submission of election papers with the Sofia municipal electoral commission and the presence of two GERB MPs, socialist MP Anton Kutev
As expected, the official election results from Bulgaria's capital Sofia have confirmed that incumbent mayor Yordanka Fandakova has been reelected.
Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister, who is in charge of the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Service (GRAO), has admitted that there were cases of unfounded removal of names from electoral rolls at the October 23 election
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