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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Daily roundup, October 31

October 31, 2016November 2, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Monday October 31 finds Bulgaria’s 21 presidential candidates in the final week ahead of what is likely to prove to

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Bulgaria elections 2016: The wrap of the week that was, October 30

October 30, 2016November 1, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

In the week ending on October 30, Bulgaria’s Parliament approved last-minute changes to electoral laws, the government played cut-price Father

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: President Plevneliev will not be candidate to replace Georgieva as European Commissioner

October 29, 2016November 1, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Kristalina Georgieva, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 29 that incumbent head of state President Rossen Plevneliev will not be

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev says will not veto last-minute changes to election laws

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 27 that he would not veto the last-minute changes to the Electoral Code

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Bulgaria elections 2016: The wrap of the week that was, October 23

October 23, 2016October 25, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The big takeaway from the past week in the campaigns ahead of Bulgaria’s November 2016 presidential elections is that we

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Last-minute Electoral Code changes push up price tag

October 22, 2016October 25, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Amendments to Bulgaria’s election laws, being approved with about two weeks to go to the November 2016 presidential elections, are

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian presidential candidate’s joke about brainless socialists offends socialist leader

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova has called on GERB presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva to apologise for telling, during a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria presidential elections: Movement for Rights and Freedoms officially endorses Oresharski

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The third-largest party in the current Bulgarian Parliament, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms founded by Ahmed Dogan, on October

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s top two presidential candidates duel in live TV debate

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The two candidates in Bulgaria’s presidential elections seen in opinion polls as running first and second – out of 21

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