Record defeat for opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party in country’s municipal elections
After second-round voting in mayoral elections on November 1, long-troubled opposition party the Bulgarian Socialist Party had to concede it
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Plovdiv’s political drama, Act 2, scene three
Plovdiv is to be European Capital of Culture in 2019, but on the long, long night of November 1 2015
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Bulgaria elections 2015: GERB and Reformist Bloc hail successes, BSP concedes defeat
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party emerged from the second round of mayoral elections on November 1 proclaiming its high
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Bulgaria elections 2015 second round: GERB wins most major cities
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party won most of the country’s largest cities that were up for grabs
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Bulgaria elections 2015 second round: Drama over result in Plovdiv
Initial exit polls after voting ended in a mayoral election runoff on November 1 in Plovdiv showed GERB candidate and
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Websites of Bulgaria’s Parliament, revenue agency, security agency offline in apparent hacker attacks
The websites of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, Parliament, National Revenue Agency and the state energy regulator were offline
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Bulgarians vote in November 1 second round of mayoral elections
Voters in several Bulgarian cities and in towns and villages across the country returned to polling stations on November 1
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Bulgarian leaders send condolences after Bucharest nightclub fire deaths
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov sent messages of condolences to their Romanian counterparts
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Bulgaria arrests hundreds in operation against illegal migration, people-smuggling, election law breaches
Bulgarian authorities detained 495 foreign citizens who were in the country illegally, arrested 16 for people-trafficking and have taken actions
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