Daniel Mitov Ready for Foreign Minister Role Amid Geopolitical Test in Bulgaria
Daniel Mitov, Deputy Chairman of GERB, has expressed his readiness to assume the position of Acting Foreign Minister
Incumbent Sofia Mayor, ruling center-right GERB party's Yoranka Fandakova, retains the certain first place in pre-election polls, with Bulgarian Socialist Party candidate Georgi Kadiev remaining second, according to a study released by Mediana Thursday.
According to the Mediana poll, 32.2% of Sofianites will vote for Fandakova, and 17.7% for Kadiev, against 8.9% for third runner, Proshko Proshkov, candidate of the rightist Blue Coalition.
Another study by Alpha Research released last week had reported that Proshkov had overcome Kadiev, with 12.9% against 12.4%, respectively.
The Mediana study released Thursday has it that the percentage of voters for Proshkov and the fourth-ranked candidate, nationalist Ataka's Nikolay Pehilvanov is getting closer, with 6.8% of the stuy's subjects saying they will vote for Pehlivanov.
The liberal National Movement for Stability and Prosperity's Vladimir Karolev comes out fifth with 4.1%.
According to Mediana, votes for municipal councilmen will rank parties in the same order, with GERB coming first, followed by the Socialists, Blue Coalition, Ataka and NMSP.
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The Commission for Protection of Personal Data has fined Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Ministry for making public nearly 37 000 permanent addresses in the country of Bulgarian voters residing abroad.
Bulgaria spared over BGN 8 M in state budget money by carrying out its local and presidential elections on the same date in 2011, the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated.
Former Justice Minister Margarita Popova was nominated by the ruling centrist-right party GERB to run for Vice President of Bulgaria in the elections that took place on October 23 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, former Bulgarian Regional Development Minister, was elected President on the ticket of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria part (GERB) on October 30 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, Bulgaria's newly elected President, will be officially sworn in on Thursday.
Bulgaria's President-elect and Vice President-elect, Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova, will take the oath of office before the National Assembly on Thursday, January 19.
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