Bulgaria: Analysts Forecast 1-Percent Margin between GERB and TISP in Case of Early Elections
Recent political developments suggest that new early elections are increasingly on the agenda.
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Recent political developments suggest that new early elections are increasingly on the agenda.
Bulgaria's National Assembly on Thursday voted, 117-8 with 107 abstentions, to amend the Election Code, lifting the limit of 35 voting sections for non-EU countries.
The Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee has agreed to have only machine voting in elections at home and abroad.
Outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov on Wednesday (14 April) put forward Daniel Mitov, a diplomat, as his successor although most analysts agree that the proposed cabinet will likely be rejected by the new Parliament.
The plenary hall of the new parliament may well be empty again after May 13.
The decisions of the Central Election Commission (CEC) announcing the results of the vote, the allocation of seats in the 45th National Assembly and the names of elected MPs are published in today's 30th issue of the State Gazette.
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms will not support a government of the election losers - GERB and BSP, but is ready to support a cabinet of the new parties in the next parliament without participating in it, the leader of the Movement Mustafa Karadayi
The nationalist VMRO party is seeking annulment of results of voting in Turkey for a new Bulgarian parliament.
The Central Election Commission on April 8 removed six people from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and two from the GERB-UDF coalition from the list of elected MPs upon receipt of their requests.
According to the final allocation of seats in the 45th Parliament, announced by the CEC, GERB will have 75 Members of Parliament, "There is such a people" - 51, BSP - 43, MRF - 30, Democratic Bulgaria - 27, "Stand up! Mafiosi out!" - 14.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told an April 7 Cabinet meeting of the scenarios he envisages for the possible formation of a new government in Bulgaria.
For the sake of stability, we are ready to single out 10-20 MPs to support a prospective government, said Prime Minister Boyko Borissov during a meeting with members of his cabinet.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s centre-right party came first in the weekend’s parliamentary elections, partial results showed Monday (5 April), but with protest parties surging it has no clear partner to form a governing coalition.
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the Council of Ministers are obliged to table resignations at the first session of the new National Assembly.
On Monday, a press conference by international observers of Bulgaria's 45th National Assembly elections was held at the Hilton Hotel in the capital.
Alpha Research pollster made public the first data from the distribution of the vote by education and age brackets.
Thirty-eight pre-trial proceedings have been launched for violations of the political rights of citizens, the Ministry of Interior, the National State Security Agency and the Prosecutor's Office report.
Traditionally, with the exit polls in, this should be an article headlined “Bulgaria’s April 2021 parliamentary elections: Winners and losers”.
There is a new political landscape in Bulgaria after April 4, the opposition vote dominates, said social analyst Kancho Stoychev in an interview with BNR.
Bulgarians voted on Sunday (4 April) sending in Parliament three new political forces largely representing the anti-corruption protests during the summer.
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