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Day: November 3, 2019

Bulgaria 

Shaken? Debatable. Stirred? Perhaps. Bulgarian PM Borissov after the local elections

November 3, 2019November 6, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria local elections 2019

Four years ago around this time, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of his centre-right GERB party, was rampant. GERB

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s second-round mayoral elections: Wins and reverses for ruling party – exit polls

November 3, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Exit polls immediately after voting ended on November 3 in second-round mayoral elections in many parts of Bulgaria showed Prime

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian media again violate law against posting exit polls while voting is proceeding

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Media

The second round of voting in mayoral elections in Bulgaria on November 3 again saw a number of websites breaking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Forestry Agency: Swimmy the spa-loving bear will be saved, not shot

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

There was never any intention to shoot Swimmy, the two-year-old bear fond of taking the waters at a Sopot restaurant

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Bulgaria 

Borissov on Valeurs Actuelles row: ‘Macron assured me he had never criticised Bulgarians’

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that Emmanuel Macron had contacted him to say that comments attributed to the French

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Bulgaria 

Voting begins in Bulgaria’s November 3 second-round mayoral elections

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Polling stations opened on the morning of November 3 in municipalities in Bulgaria where second-round mayoral elections are being held

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