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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Manolova camp to seek nullification of Sofia mayoral vote

November 4, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Sofia

The initiative committee that nominated Maya Manolova in the Sofia mayoral elections said after her second-round defeat that it would

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Poll: Majority of Bulgarians believe democracy, free speech under threat

November 4, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Fifty-six per cent of Bulgarians believe that democracy is under threat while 67 per cent see freedom of speech as

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s second-round mayoral elections: Wins and reverses for ruling party – exit polls

November 3, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Exit polls immediately after voting ended on November 3 in second-round mayoral elections in many parts of Bulgaria showed Prime

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Bulgarian media again violate law against posting exit polls while voting is proceeding

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Media

The second round of voting in mayoral elections in Bulgaria on November 3 again saw a number of websites breaking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Forestry Agency: Swimmy the spa-loving bear will be saved, not shot

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

There was never any intention to shoot Swimmy, the two-year-old bear fond of taking the waters at a Sopot restaurant

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Bulgaria 

Borissov on Valeurs Actuelles row: ‘Macron assured me he had never criticised Bulgarians’

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that Emmanuel Macron had contacted him to say that comments attributed to the French

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Bulgaria 

Voting begins in Bulgaria’s November 3 second-round mayoral elections

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Polling stations opened on the morning of November 3 in municipalities in Bulgaria where second-round mayoral elections are being held

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Bulgaria 

Petition launched to save Swimmy, the Bulgarian bear with a taste for a spa pool

November 2, 2019November 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An online petition has been launched to save a young brown bear that has taken to indulging in night swims

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Three charged in northern Bulgarian town for vote-buying in local elections – report

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

The District Prosecutor’s Office in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa in northern Bulgaria has lodged criminal charges against three men

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