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Bid to backtrack on Oresharski blunder on threat to public servants

November 19, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski

A further attempt has been made to backtrack on Plamen Oresharski’s controversial statement that people on the public payroll who

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Perspectives 

Anti-government protests in Bulgaria: A parliament behind barricades and a ‘different reality’

November 13, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev

In the 42nd National Assembly on the morning of November 13, Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Lyutvi Mestan said

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Bulgaria 

Borissov says he has lodged court action against TV boss-turned-politician for slander

November 7, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Boiko Borissov, leader of the opposition centre-right GERB party and former prime minister, has said that he has lodged court

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Bulgaria 

Approval rating of Bulgarian government plummets to new low – poll

November 4, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Volen Siderov

Public trust in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government has fallen to a new low, below the “critical” 20 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ruling axis pushes penalties for denying quorum for sittings of Parliament

October 31, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Volen Siderov

With the support of members of the parties of Bulgaria’s ruling axis – the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Movement for

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB ready with third motion of no confidence in Bulgarian Socialist Party government

October 16, 2013October 17, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Even as Bulgaria’s Parliament began debate on October 16 on the second motion of no confidence in the current government,

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: ‘Oresharski Plan’ will mean 250 000 new unemployed in Bulgaria

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski

Boiko Borissov, leader of centre-right opposition party GERB and former prime minister, has attacked the “Oresharski Plan” as set to

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Bulgaria 

GERB tables second no-confidence motion in Bulgarian Socialist Party government

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Sergei Stanishev

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB opposition party has tabled its second motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government,

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Bulgaria 

Being there: Bulgaria’s parliamentary quorum ‘hostage’ drama

October 7, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

After the latest incident in which a sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament was aborted because of a lack of a quorum,

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