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Ivaylo Kalfin, Socialist presidential runner-up, Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament and ex Foreign Affairs Minister from the previous Socialist-led Three-Way Coalition cabinet. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
By the end of the week, the presidential candidate of the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Ivaylo Kalfin, is returning to his job as Member of the European Parliament.
Kalfin and his running mate, movie star and ex Culture Minister, Stefan Danailov, ended second in the presidential race and lost by a 5% margin to the candidates of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB), Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova.
According to the Bulgarian Trud (Labor) daily, Kalfin is traveling to Brussels Friday.
The former Foreign Affairs Minister from the previous Socialist-led Three-Way Coalition cabinet, is the only Socialist and the only representative of the new EU Member States to be included on the 5-member panel, which will lead the negotiations with the 27 EU countries for the 2014-2020 budget procedure, Trud informs.
Kalfin is also to resume work on his report on internet safety, which is scheduled to be examined and voted on by MEPs by the end of the year. The Bulgarian MEP has insisted for 2 years now to have debates on the subject at EU institutions, stressing its importance and its priority status in the US.
Regarding the presidential race, the BSP candidate, cited by Trud, says he still feels the pain of losing by such narrow margin.
Kalfin plans a modest party before leaving for Brussels for the people from his campaign headquarters.
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Kostadin Angelov of the GERB was elected Deputy Chair of Bulgaria’s 51st National Assembly on Thursday
The GERB parliamentary group has announced plans to push for the repeal of the recently proposed amendments to the Water Supply and Sewerage Act, which introduced a contentious "water meter fee"
Political scientist Ruja Smilova told Bulgarian National Radio that GERB’s sixth-place result in the recent local elections reflects an uncomfortable reality for the country’s leading party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has declared that it continues to act in the public interest, setting aside narrow partisan and political ambitions amid growing tensions within the ruling coalition
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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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