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Month: March 2017

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Arrests, fines over breaches of electoral law as Bulgaria votes on March 26

March 26, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

As Bulgarians voted in parliamentary elections on March 26, the head of the Central Election Commission in Bulgaria’s Pleven region

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Bulgaria 

Voting begins in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 National Assembly elections

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Polls opened in Bulgaria at 7am on March 26 for voting in the country’s ahead-of-term election of a new Parliament.

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Bulgaria 

Police remove barricades at Turkish-Bulgarian border

March 24, 2017 Deutsche Welle Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Amid growing tension between Sofia and Ankara, Bulgarian police on Friday removed barricades protesters had erected at at least two

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Bulgaria elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 24

March 24, 2017March 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Russia, Turkey

Campaigning in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 elections closes – or is by law, is required to, lest anyone carry on

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Bulgaria 2017 parliamentary elections: limited alcohol bans on election day

March 24, 2017March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

In recent years, Bulgarian authorities have eased restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages on election days, banning the sale

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Bulgaria 

Burnt-out lorry from which refugees were rescued ‘identical’ to one owned by border fence company – report

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

A lorry from which a group of 30 migrants were rescued after it caught fire was “identical” to one owned

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Bulgarian nationalist protest against ‘electoral tourism’ blocks Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint at Turkish border

March 24, 2017March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

Bulgarian nationalist protesters against “electoral tourism” – the bussing-in of Bulgarian passport-holders from Turkey to vote in the March 26

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Bulgaria 

The buses from Bursa: Bulgarians voting, and visiting relatives

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Ahmed Dogan, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

In a report on the bussing-in of voters from Turkey to Bulgaria for the country’s March 26 elections, public broadcaster

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian voters from Turkey divert via Greece as ‘patriots’ again protest at Turkish border

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017, Greece, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgarian passport-holders coming into the country to vote in the March 26 elections would now be coming via Greece instead

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