Politics » Presidental & Local Elections 2011
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.
The Bulgarian state has spent BGN 39 M for the organization of its October 2011 presidential and municipal elections, according to official accounts released by the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released their final report on Bulgaria's October local and presidential elections.
On October 23 and 30, 2011, Bulgaria held its first "2 in 1" elections, as Bulgarians voted for their next president and for municipal authorities.
Administrative Court Sofia City (ACSC) has confirmed the legality of the October 23 mayoral elections in Sofia.
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.
Administrative Court Sofa City (ACSC) is to rule Thursday on the legality of the end-October election of municipal councilors in Bulgaria's capital.
The government has opposed the petition filed by 71 MPs to the Constitutional Court (KS) seeking the cancellation of the end-October presidential vote as "indadmissible and unfounded".
Georgi Kadiev, twice unsuccessful runner for Mayor of Sofia, has resigned from the governing body of the Sofia unit of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
Bulgarians, who live abroad and were affected by the blunder committed by Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry, which in the wake of the October presidential elections published their names and addresses in Bulgaria, are asking for compensations.
The Bulgarian opposition's demands for cancelation of the local election in the capitals Sofia have been expectedly rejected by the city's Administrative Court.
Rumen Nenkov, the father of an MP of ruling party GERB, is on the panel of reporting judges on the case of the contested presidential vote.
The left-wing oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has gathered enough MP signatures to request a cancellation of the results of the October presidential election in the country.
The Pazardzhik Administrative Court has cancelled the results of the mayoral vote in the Southern Bulgarian village of Apriltsi, Pazarddzhik municipality.
The opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) cannot count on the support of the right-wing Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) in demands to recall the presidential elections.
Eight new Members of the Bulgarian Parliament are taking Wednesday the oath of office to replace those who have been elected mayors in the October elections.