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Bulgaria's President-elect Rosen Plevneliev had the most expensive campaign among all runners in the October elections, according to the official data publish Friday.
Plevneliev's campaign cost a total of BGN 1.8 M (approximately EUR 921 000), a little below the BGN 2 M limit that was set. All the money was from the ruling centrist-right GERB's state subsidy.
Plevneliev, GERB's former Regional Minister, won with 52.58% of the votes cast.
The campaign of Svetoslav Vitkov, lead singer of punk/rock band Hipodil, turned out to be the cheapest, costing a mere BGN 220.
Plevneliev's main opponent, former Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin from the oppositional left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, had an election campaign worth BGN 1.58 M, of which BGN 1.55 M came from a loan to be repaid in the future by state subsidies.
Ivaylo Kalfin lost by a relatively narrow margin – he got 47.2% of the vote.
Independent candidate Meglena Kuneva's campaign cost BGN 294 000, all of which was gathered from donations and personal resourses. Kuneva, who is Bulgaria's former EU Commissioner, finished third in the presidential race.
Notorious alleged crime boss Aleksei Petrov, who is currently a defendant in a high-profile trial on charges of racketeering and extortion, financed his own campaign which cost a total of BGN 204 000.
A total of 18 candidates took part in the presidential elections, 12 of whom were endorsed by parties, while the other six relied on initiative committees.
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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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