Bulgaria Opposition Socialists File Claim to Cancel Sofia Elections
Representatives of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party have officially filed a claim for the cancellation of mayor elections in capital Sofia October 23.
Representatives of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party have officially filed a claim for the cancellation of mayor elections in capital Sofia October 23.
By the end of the week, the presidential candidate of the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Ivaylo Kalfin, is returning to his job as Member of the European Parliament.
The ballot count in all 264 Bulgarian municipalities has concluded and official results are available, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced Tuesday.
Members of the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) consider demanding the resignation of its leader Sergey Stanishev as a result of the heavy defeat the party suffered in the country's presidential and local elections, a reports says.
Outgoing President Georgi Parvanov has sent congratulation letters to President-Elect Rosen Plevneliev and to each of the mayors elected at the first and second round of the local elections.
Bulgarian voters have given the ruling center-right GERB party an overwhelming majority of mayors in regional capitals throughout the country, nearly twice as many as those won by the opposition Socialists, final results have shown.
Eight Members of the Parliament from the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) have been elected mayors and will free eight parliamentary seats.
Svetoslav Vitkov, lead singer of Bulgarian punk/rock band Hipodil, has said he plans to set up a civic movement.
Bulgaria's President-elect, Rosen Plevneliev, announced he would take to the presidential office some key players from his ministerial cabinet.
Residents of the southwestern Bulgarian village of Koprivlen will have to go to the polls for a third time after both mayoral candidates received an equal number of votes, 486, at the October 30 runoff.
The candidate of the ruling GERB party, Rosen Plevneliev, and his running mate, Justice Minister from the GERB cabinet, Margarita Popova, have received 61% of the vote in the capital Sofia.
Dimitar Stoykov, nominated by the ruling center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) is the new Mayor of the northern city of Pleven.
A total of 29% of the voters affiliated with the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) voted for Bulgaria's newly elected president Rosen Plevneliev, even though their party officially supported his opponent Ivaylo Kalfin ahead of Sunday's
The submission of ballots and protocols from voting polls to the Sofia Municipal Electoral Commission (OIC) went swiftly Sunday night.
The results from the first input of 98% of the protocols of the voting polls show that the candidate of the ruling GERB party, Rosen Plevneliev, had won the presidential runoff with 52.5% of the votes.
The candidate of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB), Ivan Totev, incumbent district governor, is the mayor-elect of the country's second largest city of Plovdiv.
Bulgaria's ruling center-right GERB party managed to tighten its grip on power following the presidential and local election run-offs on October 30.
Bulgaria's 2011 presidential and local elections cannot be accepted as democratic, according to Ivaylo Kalfin, Socialist Party candidate who ended as the runner-up in the presidential vote.
Bulgaria's Socialist leader has slammed the ruling and victorious center-right party for abusing the presidential and local elections with violence and vote-buying.
In a repeat of a 2009 situation, Bulgaria's Interior Minister and Deputy PM Tsvetan Tsvetanov received the wrist watch of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has made an attempt to put an end to speculations he might run for president in five years.
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