Irregularities were registered in 44% of the voting stations at the October 23 presidential and local elections, said Alexey Pamporov, head of a research unit at the Open Society Institute in Sofia.
The Sofia Municipal Electoral Commission (OIC) is reported in total disarray Monday over lack of organization and long delays in the counting of ballots from the October 23 presidential and local elections.
Commenting on the results of the 23 October elections, socialist presidential candidate Ivaylo Kalfin has rejected allegations of backstage negotiations with Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS).
The current Mayor of the Black Sea capital of Varna, Kiril Yordanov, is threatening with a law suit his main opponent in the mayoral race, the independent candidate, Veselin Mareshki.
Svetoslav Vitkov, the vocalist of Bulgarian rock band Hipodil, and a presidential runner at the October 23 elections says he is going to continue forward with his political career.
Utter chaos and confusion have ruled a large number of voting polls across Bulgaria Sunday, which was the day of presidential and local elections.
The nominations for president and vice president of Bulgaria's ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party have the lead in the Sunday vote after the counting of 57% of the ballots.
Bulgarian controversial businessman, former secret agent and alleged crime boss Alexei Petrov won the presidential vote at the Bobovdol prison.
Bulgaria's ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party has collected the most votes in Sunday's local elections according to exit polls and the first results from the Central Electoral Commission's, CEC, ballot counting
The presidential and vice presidential candidates of the opposition left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, are very attractive and it would be very easy to convince the ethnic Turkish electorate to support them.
Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's former European Commissioner, who finished third in the presidential elections on Sunday, has vehemently denied claims that her nomination was at one point embraced by the previously ruling Socialist Party.
Socialist Ivaylo Kalfin, the second-ranked runner in Bulgaria's presidential race, has warned of a looming monopoly over all state institutions in the hands of the ruling center-right party.
The presidential candidate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party Ivaylo Kalfin totally has the chance to turn things around in the presidential run-off, according to BSP leader Sergey Stanishev.
Rosen Plevneliev, the ruling Bulgarian centrist-right GERB's presidential runner, who emerged as a leader in the first round, failed to answer adequately a question over the alleged monopoly on the local media market.
Margarita Popova, candidate for vice president from the ruling Bulgarian centrist-right GERB's presidential couple, says their lead is support for unpopular reforms in tough times.
The results from the first round of the presidential and local elections in Bulgaria on Sunday have been interpreted as a great success by the government of Boyko Borisov and the rightist GERB party.
Rosen Plevneliev, the ruling Bulgarian centrist-right GERB's presidential runner, who emerged as a leader in the first round, hаs promised to work actively and non-partisan for modern Bulgaria.
Bulgarian businessman, ex-secret agent and failed presidential runner Aleksei Petrov has demanded that the results from Sunday's presidential elections be canceled.
Kardzhali, a town made up predominantly of ethnic Turks, has surprisingly sent its incumbent mayor to a run-off with the candidate of the ruling GERB party.
Slavcho Atanasov, the incumbent Mayor of the second largest Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, will face Plovdiv District Governor Ivan Totev in the local vote run-off in a week.
Volen Siderov, leader of the Bulgarian nationalist party Ataka who got 4% of the votes in Sunday's presidential elections, has refused to vouch for any of the remaining bidders.
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