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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria prepares for October 25 municipal and mayoral elections

October 23, 2015October 25, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2015, Plovdiv, Sofia

Bulgarian political parties and coalitions were closing off their campaigns in the final days and hours ahead of the 24-hour

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015: The battle for Sofia

October 22, 2015October 25, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2015, Sofia

In the mayoral election in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on October 25, the contest is arguably incumbent Yordanka Fandukova’s to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015: The battle for Plovdiv

October 22, 2015October 24, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2015, Plovdiv

Voters in Plovdiv might be well advised to keep some time open on November 1 – conventional wisdom in Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015: The battle for Varna

October 22, 2015October 23, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2015

In the Black Sea city of Varna, voters in Bulgaria’s mayoral and municipal elections on October 25 have a choice

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015: The ‘battle’ for Bourgas

October 22, 2015October 23, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas, Bulgaria elections 2015

In mayoral elections in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas on October 25, the “battle” may be less over who

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Bulgaria 

Battle lines in major cities in Bulgaria’s October 2015 mayoral elections

September 4, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas, Bulgaria elections 2015, Plovdiv, Rousse, Sofia, Varna

With seven weeks to go before the first round of Bulgaria’s mayoral and municipal elections on October 25 2015, the

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s circles of coffee, compromises and coalitions

July 31, 2015August 30, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A pattern of apparent collusion between Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms in recent votes

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Perspectives 

As he pushes judicial reform, Bulgarian Justice Minister targeted in smear campaign

July 10, 2015July 31, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer judiciary

Bulgarian Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov is on the receiving end of a sustained campaign against him as he seeks to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian cabinet could face new fighter jet proposal

June 23, 2015June 26, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Nato

If Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev keeps to his stated intention, the scheduled cabinet meeting on June 24 could see

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