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Simeon Djankov (L) is pictured here with the leader of GERB party Boyko Borisov during the election night on July 5. Photo by BGNES
Simeon Djankov, a World Bank analyst and chief economic advisor to the new center-right GERB party, which won by a wide margin the general elections on July 5, will be named Bulgaria's next finance minister.
"Yes, the finance minister in my government will be called Simeon Djankov and this is the first time I am telling this to anyone," Boyko Borisov, GERB leader and future prime minister of Bulgaria, told a Dow Jones reporter, while he was inspecting Sofia subway.
Borisov, Sofia mayor, leader of the winner in the general elections GERB party and already self-proclaimed prime minister of Bulgaria, said he already knows the line-up of the next government, but refused to disclose other names.
On the election night Simeon Djankov was seen ever present by the side of Borisov.
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Bulgarian Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party has requested an annulment of ballots cast in Turkey for Bulgaria's May 12 early general elections over what they claimed were a number of irregularities at polling stations in Bulgaria's neighbor.
Tsetska Tsacheva, speaker of Bulgaria's last parliament, will be former ruling party GERB's new candidate for parliament chair, according to newly elected GERB MP Emil Radev.
Bulgaria’s predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will not enter a coalition with either the center-right GERB party or the ultranationalist Ataka (Attack), DPS leader Lyutvi Mestan has declared.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party has declared will attempt to win the support of ultranationalist outfit Ataka (Attack) after the general election on Sunday.
The Austrian company SORA, which is doing a parallel vote count in Bulgaria's May 12 early general election, has confirmed that four parties will certainly make their way to the country’s 42nd General Assembly.
Bulgaria’s Central Electoral Committee has launched a second count of the ballots cast in Sunday’s general election in the country.
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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