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The second round of Bulgaria’s mayoral elections is over, and thus, all of the mayoral elections. In those places where the elections went to a second round, voters had a […]
Four years ago around this time, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of his centre-right GERB party, was rampant. GERB had won every major ...
To channel Highlander, Sunday is coming – and there can only be one. In Sofia and 18 other cities that are capitals of districts, run-off electi ...
Spare a thought for Mladen Mladenov, Iliya Zyumbilev and Milena Dimitrova. Few else may. In the October 27 mayoral elections in Sofia, Plovdiv and Var ...
In Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, mayoral elections are not a simple matter. It was so, not for the first time, in 2015 as matters went down to the wire in […]
Ataka party leader Volen Siderov, in front of cameras, submitted his resignation from Parliament on Thursday (stifles yawn). Now you know. The Siderov stunt was an attempt to draw attention […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council approved by 20 votes to four the nomination of Ivan Geshev to be the country’s next Prosecutor-General, at a marathon meeting overshadowed by protests that blocked […]
A week is left to the end of official campaigning in Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 mayoral and municipal elections, before voters are called to the ballot boxes on October 27. In […]
Four of the 20 candidates in the autumn 2019 mayoral elections in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia met in a debate broadcast live on Bulgarian National Television’s weekly Referendum programme on […]
Campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 mayoral and municipal elections is at its midway point, with two more weeks to go, and the many thousands of candidates are criss-crossing the […]
