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Bulgarians voted in local elections on October 23 and in the October 30 runoff. File photo
The ballot count in all 264 Bulgarian municipalities has concluded and official results are available, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced Tuesday.
In most municipal councils the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) has the needed majority.
According to the CEC data, the distribution of elected municipal councilors is as follows: 1 583 for GERB, 1 038 for the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), 688 for the opposition ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), 123 for the conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS), 97 for the right-wing Blue Coalition, and 63 for the far-right, nationalist Ataka.
GERB registers the highest increase compared to its 865 municipal councilors in the previous local elections in 2007; BSP has a slight increase of just 69; for the first time since the beginning of democratic elections in Bulgaria in 1990, DPS registers a sharp decline – 844 in 2007 to the current 688 due to GERB's breakthrough in DPS strongholds with a large minority population.
The record breaker in having fewer councilors is, however, Ataka – from 244 in 2007 to 63 in 2011.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) in Bulgaria has confirmed that a total of 6,575,151 citizens are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections on April 19
A mayor in northwestern Bulgaria is under scrutiny after allegedly distributing social benefits alongside a political party’s election materials
A new survey by the “Sova Harris” agency indicates that six political formations would enter the next Bulgarian National Assembly, based on data collected between April 2 and 6 among 800 respondents through standardized face-to-face interviews
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
President Iliana Yotova convened a meeting of institutions responsible for the conduct of the early parliamentary elections on April 19, with a focus on assessing preparedness and ensuring that every vote is properly safeguarded
Authorities in Bulgaria report a significant escalation in efforts to combat election-related violations, with 183 individuals detained in connection with crimes against electoral rights
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.
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