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18 May 2013, Issue 347

by Novinite.com

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Buzz Bulgaria after the Elections: Bleak Outlook or Dead End By Milena Hristova Only four Bulgarian parties - those which got most discredited over the past decade thanks to corruption and links with the oligarchy - made it to parliament on Sunday. | read | Buzz Nationalist Leader - Kingmaker in Bulgaria By Neda Peliteva No matter what politicians say, one thing is for sure. | read | Buzz Responsible Politicians? Anyone? By Svetlozar Bahchevanov Are there any nationally responsible politicians left in Bulgaria? Over the next few days, we will know the answer to that important question. | read | Editorial Bulgarians Even More Disillusioned after Vote By Milena Hristova "Every nation chooses alone whether to crash or not. | read | Editorial More of the Same? Are Bulgarians Insane? By Milena Hristova The article was originally published at Novinite. | read | Expert Voices Voiding Election Results in Bulgaria After the formerly-ruling GERB party announced they want the results from the May 12 general elections voided over suspicions of vote rigging, legal experts in Bulgaria have commented on ways to do so. | read | Expert Voices Bulgarians Feel Like Abandoned Kids - Social Anthropologist Excerpts from Euronews interview with prominent Bulgarian social anthropologist Haralan Aleksandrov on the ongoing social and political crisis in Bulgaria“The reasons that triggered the mass demonstrations [in February] have been there for years. | read |

The Week in Pictures Bulgarian Socialists Push for Quick Convening of Parliament Ex Bulgarian PM: I Feel Like Winner Bulgaria's GERB Party to Request Cancellation of Election Results Bulgarian Drumming Duo Fails to Make Eurovision Finals Football Superstar David Beckham Announces Retirement

Bulgaria Main Party Plays Victim, Firm to Void Election Result

Bulgaria's biggest political party is determined to have the result of Sunday's deadlocked election cancelled, saying the energy mafia is its true enemy.

"Gerb [the formerly ruling party, ousted by mass protests in February] hurt the interests of Bulgaria's organized crime and energy mafia. Now they are striking back in revenge and we feel the pain," Ivaylo Moskovski, former transport minister in the cabinet of Boyko Borisov, told bTV channel on Friday.

"This is a plot, well thought-out and planned well in advance, aiming to destroy Gerb," the former minister said.

The party, which gained a slight lead in the early elections, but not enough to form a stable minority government, wants the results voided on the grounds of a legal violation.

On Saturday, a day before the elections, when by law electoral campaigning is forbidden, prosecutors announced they had raided a printing shop and found 350,000 illegally printed ballots in a printing house owned by a Gerb official.

The party claims its chances had been hurt by news conferences held by other parties in relation to the raid on Saturday.

"Once the new parliament is convened, we will take advantage of every opportunity we have to press ahead with cancelling the vote results. We have hundreds of articles and broadcasts, which violated the rules. All they will be part of our case that the electoral process has been marred and must start anew," Moscovski argued.

Under the Constitution, the decision about the void can be made only by the Constitutional Court.

A political party has the right to ask annulment of election results, but only through the intermediation of five institutions - the President, the Supreme Court of Cassations, VKS, the Supreme Administrative Court, VAS, through their respective judges' plenum, the Chief Prosecutor, and at least one fifth of the sworn-in Members of the Parliament.

The latter is interpreted by the majority of legal experts as needing to have a convened Parliament in order for GERB to be able to ask the Constitutional Court for a void through its MPs.

However, the country's ombudsman offered a different interpretation Friday morning, saying GERB MPs could do the move now, as the mandate starts on election day, not the date of the oath of office.

In commenting on the fact that both President, Rosen Plevneliev, and Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, have already firmly declared they do not see any need to annul the election results, Penchev said the situation was "schizophrenic."

Bulgaria's New Parliament to Convene on May 21

Bulgaria's new Parliament is to meet for the first time on Tuesday, May 21, President Rosen Plevneliev has announced.

The majority of parties that overcame the 4% election threshold have agreed on the date, Plevneliev told reporters.

On Friday, the President met with representatives of the four parties that enter Bulgaria's next Parliament: the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party of former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, and their self-proclaimed arch enemies - the far-right nationalist Ataka (Attack).

According to the final count, DPS and BSP together will have 120 seats in the 240-seat unicameral Parliament. Ataka is yet to declare whether it would support these two parties.

Ataka, BSP and DPS have all declared that they would not negotiate with GERB, which narrowly won the election on May 12, but will be unable to form a government.

Plevneliev has declared on several occasions that a new government should be formed as soon as possible.

Elections 2013 3 Key Bulgarian Socialist Officials Tipped for Cabinet Posts - Report Three senior Bulgarian Socialist Party officials are likely to be proposed for ministers in Bulgaria’s next government, Novinite.bg has reported, citing its own sources. | read |

Elections 2013 Bulgarian Ombudsman: Vote Void Will Lead to Chaos Voiding election results is totally useless and will only stir chaos, says Bulgaria's Ombudsman, Konstantin Penchev. | read |

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Bulgarians Even More Disillusioned after Vote

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More of the Same? Are Bulgarians Insane?

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Bulgarian-Turkish Border Checkpoint Open for Car, Bus Traffic

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Angry Bulgarian Truckers Continue Turkish Border Blockade

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Bulgaria's Privatization Agency Launches 2nd Attempt to Sell Arms Manufacturer

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Bulgaria 4th in Europe by Exports of Organic Honey

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National Regulators Confirm Extension of Nabucco Third-Party Exemption

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Bulgaria Lags Behind Rest of EU in LGBTI Legislation

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Bulgarian Drumming Duo Fails to Make Eurovision Finals

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Bulgaria's Berbatov Hints of Staying in Fulham

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Ian Poulter in Bulgaria: I Have Never Seen a Course Like That

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Beroe Grabs Unexpectedly Bulgaria Cup after Penalties

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Bulgaria Hosts First Major Golf Tournament

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Bulgarian Kid Wins Chess World Championships for 9-Y-Olds

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Bulgaria's Berbatov Named Fulham's Player of the Season

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Fans, Tweeter Users Condemn 'Chelsea to Win, Petrov to Die' Message

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Hristo Bozov Reinstated as Interim Varna Mayor

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Notorious Bulgarian Roma Boss, Wife, Indicted for Large-Scale Tax Evasion

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Bulgarian Court Orders 37-Year-Old under EAW Taken into Custody

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Bulgarian Investigator Axed over Money Laundering Case Sabotage

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Russian Mafia Gang Smashed in London, Sex Slaves - Bulgarians

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Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor: We Are Not National Traitors

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Bulgarian Medics Cleared of 2010 Baby Death Case

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Bulgarian Prosecution to Ask Stripping Tsvetanov of Immunity

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Bulgarian Border Police Detain 17 Illegal Immigrants

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Israel Upholds Results of Bulgaria's Investigation of 2012 Burgas Bus Bombing

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Homemade Bomb Found on Bulgarian MP Hopeful Car

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Bulgarian Right-Wing Leader Home Attacked with Pocket Knife

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Sharapova Confirms Romantic Relationship with Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov

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Nationalist Leader - Kingmaker in Bulgaria

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Responsible Politicians? Anyone?

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Bulgaria after the Elections: Bleak Outlook or Dead End

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Bulgarians Feel Like Abandoned Kids - Social Anthropologist

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Voiding Election Results in Bulgaria

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3 Key Bulgarian Socialist Officials Tipped for Cabinet Posts - Report

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Bulgarian Nationalist Leader Recommends Convoking 42nd National Assembly without Delay

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Bulgaria's GERB Alarms EU about Ethnic Turkish Vote Buying

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Bulgaria's Ethnic Turkish Leader: Ex PM Lost Grip on Reality

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850 000 Bulgarian Voters Left Without Representation in Parliament

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Bulgaria's GERB: Vote Void Will Clean Our Image

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Ex Top Cop Apologizes to Bulgarian Medics over 2010 Baby Death Case

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Bulgarian Socialists Push for Quick Convening of Parliament

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Ex Bulgarian PM: I Feel Like Winner

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Ex Top Cop: Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Must Forward Vote Voiding Petition

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Bulgarian Ombudsman: Vote Void Will Lead to Chaos

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Bulgarian Ex-Rulers Swear to God They Didn't Attempt Voting Fraud

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Bulgarian Ex-Top Cop Vows to Give Up Immunity

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Bulgarian Ex-PM to Get Rid of Embattled Aide in Future Cabinet

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Bulgaria's GERB Party to Request Cancellation of Election Results

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Football Superstar David Beckham Announces Retirement

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