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The leaders of the two parties Korman Ismailov and Hristina Hristova are pictured here after registering their coalition for the elections. Photo by BGNES
The former king's party, now a marginal liberal party, has joined forces with the ethnic Turkish 'dissidents' for the upcoming elections.
The National Movement for Stability and Prosperity and the National Party Freedom and Dignity became on Saturday the first coalition to register for the early elections in May.
NMSP was part of the so-called three-way coalition (2005-2009). The party failed to enter the Bulgarian Parliament after the 2009 general elections.
Kasim Dal, the self-proclaimed top "dissident" from the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, DPS, and Korman Ismailov, a former head of the youth organization of DPS, founded in December 2012, new party – National Party Freedom and Dignity, NPSD.
"More than a year ago we said we will be looking for coalition allies because of the difficult situation Bulgaria is now," Hristina Hristova, leader of the liberals, said.
Korman Ismailov, leader of NPSD, said that he is likely to top the coalition's ticket in the town of Kardzhali, where the population is predominantly ethnic Turks.
Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS)'s co-founder Kasim Dal has said he doesn't rule out cooperation with Lyutvi Mestan, who was removed as DPS leader and expelled from the party last week.
The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BZNS) and the People's Party for Freedom and Dignity (NPSD) have demanded that the Reformist Bloc, a loose coalition of parties of which they are members, should continue to exist.
Orhan Ismailov, an ethnic Turk who has been appointed Deputy Minister of Defense, could disclose secret information to the Turkish intelligence, a nationalist leader has said.
From the first days of the recent Bulgarian government the nationalist coalition called Patriotic Front has made numerous attempts at crossing the line of ethnic and religious tolerance. But this should be nothing to worry about.
The nationalist coalition called Patriotic Front (PF) will give the ruling axis 100 days to have Turkish- language news off the air.
Bulgaria’s biggest party GERB could accept a cabinet led not by Boyko Borisov, but by Radan Kanev, one of the leaders at right-wing Reformist Bloc.
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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