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Foreign Minister: Bulgarians abroad will have easier time voting in presidential election runoff

November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov says that voting abroad will proceed more easily at the second round of Bulgaria’s presidential

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Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Roundup, November 7

November 7, 2016November 9, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

A week is a long time in politics, and the runup to Bulgaria’s second-round presidential elections on November 13 is

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Bulgarian elections 2016: Provisional results after 95.2% of ballots processed

November 7, 2016November 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

With 95.2 per cent of ballots processed, the Central Election Commission said on November 7 that Bulgarian Socialist Party-backed candidate

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Bulgarian PM Borissov defers question of resignation until after presidential election runoff

November 7, 2016November 8, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

At an impromptu news conference in the first minutes of November 7, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that the

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Bulgaria: Borissov the ghost at Radev’s table

November 7, 2016November 13, 2016 Alex Bivol Bulgaria elections 2016

The biggest star of the election night news conference by Roumen Radev was not the candidate himself, leading in the

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Bulgaria: Do the votes for the general lead to a general election?

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

As Bulgarians head for a second-round vote in presidential elections on November 13, the bigger issue is whether the country

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Presidential elections: Bulgarian PM Borissov will speak on fate of government ‘no earlier than Monday’

November 6, 2016November 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov is expected to speak no earlier than November 7 about the fate of his government,

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Bulgarian referendum set to fall narrowly short of threshold to become mandatory – exit polls

November 6, 2016November 8, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

Turnout in the national referendum in Bulgaria on November 6 was expected to fall just short of the threshold that

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Bulgaria elections 2016: Opposition candidate Radev narrowly wins biggest share of first-round vote – exit poll

November 6, 2016November 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

There was shock for Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s governing GERB party as opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party-backed candidate Roumen Radev

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