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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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GERB abandons coalition co-operation talks with Bulgaria Without Censorship

October 17, 2014October 21, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party cut short coalition government co-operation first-round talks with Nikolai Barekov’s Bulgaria Without Censorship party and

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: We will not accept a coalition that is ‘anti’ other parties

October 17, 2014October 19, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014

Boiko Borissov, leader of centre-right GERB – winner of the largest number of seats in Bulgaria’s new Parliament – says

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front to support Borissov cabinet

October 16, 2014October 19, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Negotiators from Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB and the nationalist Patriotic Front emerged from close to five hours of talks on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s coalition talks drama: GERB, Reformist Bloc marathon meeting ends without agreement

October 15, 2014October 18, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

More than six hours of talks between GERB and the Reformist Bloc ended with no substantial agreement and for now

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Bulgaria 

GERB will not accept MRF support for single-party minority government

October 14, 2014October 17, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections and the governing party-presumptive, has

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Bulgaria 

‘Constructive’ talks leave GERB, BSP divided on key issues

October 13, 2014October 17, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Four hours of talks between negotiating teams from GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party established common ground on some policy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB begins formal negotiations on coalition government

October 13, 2014October 14, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014

A week and a day after Bulgaria’s October 5 early parliamentary elections, and after days of foot-stamping and posturing, formal

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians and preferential voting: shift happens

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgarians appear to have taken to preferential voting with a passion, with more than third who voted in the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s rocky road to a new governing coalition

October 6, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian elections 2014

After Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary elections, the country faces a rocky road to achieving a new governing coalition,

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