Ex-Economy Minister: Bulgaria Unlikely to Enter Eurozone in Early 2025
In a recent interview on Nova TV, former Minister of Economy Bogdan Bogdanov expressed skepticism regarding Bulgaria's prospects of entering the Eurozone at the outset of 2025
Bulgarians are divided in their opinion on the resignation of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, according to a recent poll.
The poll has been conducted by the National Center for Study of Public Opinion (NZIOM) between March 21 and March 29.
45% of the respondents say the resignation was escape from responsibility while 42% saw it as a dignified act.
The first group includes the elderly, those with lower living standards, both residents of the capital and of small villages, and supporters of the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, and the far-right, nationalist Ataka.
The second group includes people in the 18 - 49 age group, with higher incomes, and living in the largest cities. 83% of the followers of Borisov's center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, say he acted with dignity in deciding to resign.
Borisov's GERB government, resigned on February 21st amidst huge protest rallies, and President, Rosen Plevneliev, had to appoint a caretaker one
Meanwhile, the ratings of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in March have shown the largest increase among institutions (21%) and have reached 66%, which is attributed to the election of Ruse Metropolitan Neofit for Patriarch. Those approving of the Church are mainly over the age of 50 and with high income.
Neofit enjoys a 64% approval rating.
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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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