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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Central Election Commission will decide on ‘media packages’ for news sites

October 13, 2016October 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Media

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission will allow the awarding of “media packages” for election advertising on some news websites, depending on

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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Shadow of the Bulgarian Communist Party

October 12, 2016October 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Tsetska Tsacheva, nominated by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party as its candidate in the country’s November 2016

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Perspectives World 

Conflictorial: Trump the loser in second US presidential debate

October 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Donald Trump went into the second 2016 US presidential televised debate the underdog, and while underdogs sometimes earn sympathy, Trump

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s elections 2016: The first weekend round-up

October 9, 2016October 12, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Official campaigning in Bulgaria’s November 2016 presidential elections got underway on the weekend of October 9 and 10, with major

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Voters to have ‘I don’t support anyone’ option

October 9, 2016October 12, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

It might make voters in the US November 8 2016 elections green with envy – Bulgarians who go to the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: The candidates in profile

October 7, 2016October 11, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

After the Central Election Commission refused to approve the registration applications of three, a total of 21 candidates are in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov rejects calls to resign over UN race failure

October 6, 2016October 8, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has rejected opposition calls for his resignation over the failure of Bulgaria in the race

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Bulgaria 

Recriminations, calls for resignations after Bulgaria flops in UN race

October 6, 2016October 7, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgaria’s socialist opposition parties have seized on the failure of the Bulgarian candidates – one official and the other not

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Bulgaria World 

UN Security Council: António Gutérres ‘clear favourite’ in Secretary-General race

October 5, 2016October 7, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Portugal’s António Gutérres is the “clear favourite” in the race to be the next United Nations Secretary-General, Russian ambassador to the

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