Politics » Presidental & Local Elections 2011
Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister, and Head of the Election Quarters of the ruling GERB party cast a ballot Sunday, accompanied by his entire family, including baby daughter Sofia.
The two MPs from the ruling party GERB, who were inside the facility where the capital's ballots have been counted, should not have been there, according to the Chair of the Sofia Municipal Electoral Commission (OIC), Marina Belcheva.
A total of 111 Bulgarian citizens have voted in the presidential elections run-off in the polling stations in Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing, the Foreign Ministry announced.
Ballots for the presidential runoff vote in the northwestern Danube city of Vidin mysteriously found their way Sunday to several voting polls in the Black Sea capital Varna.
Bulgarian media beat a ban on the release of exit polls from voting in the presidential and local run-offs by using a number of tricks, including bogus weather reports, as cover to pass on runners' likely standings.
Ahmed Dogan, the controversial leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, cast his vote in the country's presidential election run-off on Sunday.
It is now most important that Bulgarians should avoid the ruling centrist-right GERB party's "kiss of death", left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Sergey Stanishev declared upon voting in the presidential election's run-off on Sunday.
Invalid ballots were deliberately cast by Bulgaria's opposition in order to suggest that there have been manipulations in the voting process, according to the country's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who voted in Sunday's election run-off.
Georgi Pravanov, Bulgaria's president whose second and last term in office ends in January, voted in his country's presidential election run-off on Sunday.
Rosen Plevneliev, the presidential candidate endorsed by Bulgaria's ruling centrist-right GERB party, cast his vote in Sunday's election run-off, vowing his presidency will be dynamic and pragmatic.
Ivaylo Kalfin, the presidential bidder endorsed by the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, cast his vote in Sunday's election run-off.
A total of 84 Bulgarian citizens have taken part in Sunday's run-off of the Bulgarian presidential elections in the polling stations in New Zealand and Australia, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced.
The presidential and local elections in Bulgaria have turned out to be a nightmare, according to Ivan Kostov, co-leader of the right-wing Blue Coalition and former Prime Minister (1997-2001).
Hunting has been banned in Bulgaria on Sunday, October 30, the day on which presidential and local election runoffs are carried out in the country.
Bulgarians are casting their ballot Sunday in the second round of the 5th presidential elections in their country's history, picking between Rosen Plevneliev, the candidate of the ruling center-right party GERB and PM Boyko Borisov, and Ivaylo Kalfin, run
Bulgarians began voting on Sunday in local and presidential election run-offs amid expectations that the outcome will tighten the centre-right GERB's grip on power despite dismal economic conditions, allegations of violence and vote-buying.
A troubling exodus of election officials is being registered in the last day before the second round of presidential and local elections in Bulgaria this Sunday.
The first Bulgarian citizens around the world to vote in the run-off of the presidential and local elections on Sunday, October 30, 2011, are those in New Zealand.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Interior has announced that 15,220 police officers will be deployed Sunday to ensure the safe and peaceful carrying through of the second round of presidential and local elections.
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission failed to adopt a pronouncement Saturday on the fact that two ruling GERB party MPs were present at the Sofia Municipal Electoral Commission upon counting ballots.
Saturday is a so-called "day of reflection" in Bulgaria, as it precedes the second round of the presidential and municipal elections October 30.