18 Candidates Ready for Sofia Mayor Elections

Politics » DOMESTIC | October 21, 2009, Wednesday // 14:16
18 Candidates Ready for Sofia Mayor Elections: 18 Candidates Ready for Sofia Mayor Elections "Sofia Is in Good Hands" is the campaign motto of Yordanka Fandakova who is predicted to succeed Boyko Borisov as Mayor of Sofia. She is pictured here at the opening of her election campaign. Photo by BGNES

There are 18 candidates to become Sofia Mayor the Municipal Election Commission announced on Wednesday in the Bulgarian capital.

On November 15, the residents of Sofia, the northwest city of Vratsa, and the towns of Razlog, Radnevo and Pravetz are going to vote for new Mayors.

The Mayor of Radnevo, Noncho Vodenicharov, died of a heart attack during his participation in the reality TV show "Survivor."

Candidates for Sofia Mayor:

Valentin Simov (‘The Greens’ Coalition)

Siyka Naydenova (Bulgarian Workers’ Socialist Party)

Hristo Atansov (Libertas Bulgaria)

Tatyana Papazova (Bulgarian Labor Party (communists))

Pavel Popov (Law, Order, Justice [RZS])

Emil Antonov (Bulgarian National-Radical Party)

Kristiyan Krustev (Bulgarian Business Block [BBB])

Maya Grozdanova (Young Socialists Union)

Anton Genov (Bulgarian Democratic Community)

Todor Denchev (put forward by nomination committee)

Georgi Zhekov (put forward by nomination committee)

Georgi Kadiev (Coalition for Bulgaria)

Ventsislav Kurpachev (Bulgarian Labor-Rural Party)

Victoria Daneva (Bulgarian Communist Party)

Yordanka Fandakova (GERB)

Iliya Bozhinov (Bulgarian Left)

Sava Garbuzanov (United Party of Pensioners in Bulgaria)

Ivan Antikadzhiev (Union of Free Democrats)

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