Croatian Ruling Party Triumphs in Elections, Tough Negotiations Ahead
In a widely expected outcome, Croatia's ruling conservative party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), emerged victorious in the parliamentary elections
The Bulgarian MPs from the Commission on changes in the election legislature decided Thursday to keep the election system intact.
The decision was made after the proposal of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) for the introduction of a mixed electoral system with 31 majority elected Members of the Parliament (MPs) was rejected.
The Commission's members decided to stay with the current proportional system. The votes of the BSP and of ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms Party (DPS) representatives proved insufficient by just one single vote to adopt the leftist proposal.
Tatyana Doncheva was the only BSP MP who abstained from voting for or against the proposal.
The removal of the proposal's text led to the removal of the previously approved change to raise a coalition's election threshold to 8%.
The DPS representatives commented the Commission did not have a clear opinion on the changes and demonstratively left the meeting. The Commission Chair, Angel Naydenov, was then forced to end the discussion prematurely due to lack of quorum.
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The "We Want to Vote" initiative has launched a new internet site aiming at assisting all Bulgarian expats, who wish to vote in the October 23 presidential elections.
Bulgaria's Supreme Constitutional Court is requesting additional documents and expertise in the case of the summer general elections vote in neighboring Turkey.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered the Bulgarian Ambassadors to Turkey and the US to give explanations for ‘disciplinary violations’ in the July 5 general elections.
The popular party of prime minister Boyko Borisov manages to keep and to even increase its lead ahead of the formerly ruling Socialists following their crushing defeat at July 5 general elections, a brand new survey shows.
The Bulgarian central prosecutor's office has announced that the most serious violations have been found in the Turkish polls from the Bulgarian Parliament Elections on July 5.
An inspection by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has found serious violations in the foreign sections during the Parliament Elections on July 5.
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