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Bulgarian right-wing politicians Ivan Kostov (l) and Martin Dimitrov (r), former Chairs of the Blue Coalition in the now-dissolved Parliament. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister, Marin Raykov, is holding talks Thursday with right-wing politicians Ivan Kostov and Martin Dimitrov, who were Chairs of the Blue Coalition in the now-dissolved Parliament.
The election board at the Council of Ministries which is to organize and carry out the snap election on May 12 is going to top the agenda of the meeting.
Raykov already met with the leaders of the three major political formations – the centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, led by former PM, Boyko Borisov, the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, led by another former PM, Sergey Stanishev, and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, led by Lyutvi Mestan.
On Friday, he will meet with the leader of the far-right, nationalist Ataka party, Volen Siderov.
On Wednesday, the PM sent letters to all parties in the dissolved Parliament asking them to provide a list of NGO representatives and observers to be included in the election board.
Regarding members of the Central Electoral Commission, CEC, it is still unknown if they will be only from NGOs or will include political parties' representatives.
The election board is a different structure from the planned public councils at some Ministries and the Cabinet.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) in Bulgaria has confirmed that a total of 6,575,151 citizens are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections on April 19
Caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov said the interim government will continue to operate “with decency, responsibility and as a team,” despite what he described as coordinated political pressure and criticism from multiple directions
The leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) Delyan Peevski, sharply criticized Bulgaria’s caretaker government, calling its actions “a shame for the country.”
The caretaker government led by Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov has officially removed the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Fair Elections from its organizational structure
Bulgarian media tycoon and notorious oligarch Delyan Peevski has officially retired the “New Beginning” label as his party prepares for the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to an announcement from the DPS press office
The caretaker government led by Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov has carried out a full replacement of all 28 regional governors across Bulgaria.
Ivan Portnih, candidate of Bulgaria’s formerly ruling center-right party GERB, has won the battle for mayor of the coastal city of Varna by a slim margin.
Two candidates are vying to be mayor of Bulgaria's third-largest city and summer capital, Varna on the Black Sea coast.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office final count of the alleged illegal ballots discovered at a printing house in Kostinbrod hours ahead of the May 12 early elections is 480 000.
The number of apparently illegally printed ballots for Bulgaria's May 12 early general elections has swollen to at least 400,000, according to an announcement by the prosecution.
Bulgaria's formerly-ruling, center-right GERB Party has sent its claim contesting and asking to void the May 12 early general elections results to all European institutions.
Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has decided to try the claim contesting and asking to void the May12 early general elections results.
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