Will Bulgaria Have a Stable Government After Yet Another Election in June? Our Readers Have Spoken
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The center GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, which narrowly won Sunday’s general election in Bulgaria, will have 98 seats in the country’s 240-seat Parliament, according to an expert.
With 96% of votes already counted, the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is set to obtain 86 seats in Parliament, according to Prof. Krasimir Kalinov, a member of the Central Electoral Committee.
The ultranationalist Ataka (Attack) would have 23 MPs, while the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms would have 33 seats.
Kalinov has noted that 45% of the ballots cast by Bulgarians abroad are yet to be counted, which means that a difference of one or two seats may emerge when the final results are announced.
He stated that BSP and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms might be able to form a coalition government.
Kalinov told the Bulgarian National Radio that no other parties would reach the 4% election threshold and enter Parliament.
GERB won approximately 30.7% of the vote on Sunday, but appears unlikely to be able to form a new government, as all other parties have already declared that they would not support the center-right outfit.
Borisov’s GERB Cabinet resigned amid massive protests triggered by poverty and corruption in February, prompting early elections.
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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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