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Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Borissov’s GERB postpones traditional news conference ‘pending official results’

May 13, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2013

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, said by exit polls to have gained by a slight margin the largest share of

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Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Volen Siderov and the case of the missing leaders

May 13, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2013, Volen Siderov

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka party, was pressed repeatedly on election night about his stance on future coalition

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Bulgaria’s former PM Borissov questioned in eavesdropping investigation

May 7, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

The beginning of the final week of the parliamentary election campaign in Bulgaria brought no new revelations in the ongoing

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Eavesdropping controversy: Kokinov to face disciplinary hearing, Borissov and Naidenov to be questioned

April 29, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

In another day of drama in Bulgaria’s eavesdropping controversy, the Supreme Judicial Council voted unanimously to accept the resignation of

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Volleys in political trench warfare after Naidenov says Tsvetanov bugged everyone

April 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Within a few hours of former cabinet minister Miroslav Naidenov alleging that Tsvetan Tsvetanov had been behind illegal eavesdropping on

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Borissov and GERB back Tsvetanov in eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov and his centre-right GERB party, facing volleys of calls for election campaign chief and former interior minister Tsvetan

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Bulgaria’s election battle lines: GERB and the BSP

April 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2013, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

Perhaps when April 12 brings the formal start of the campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 national parliamentary elections,

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Borissov on bloodshed, Tsvetanov on freedom and Siderov on ‘the so-called Holocaust’

March 6, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s day of national mourning on March 6 2013 for Plamen Goranov, the protester who died several days after setting

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Bulgaria’s acting PM released from hospital

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s acting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who remains in office pending the appointment of a caretaker government amid the country’s

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