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Bulgaria’s coalition government talks: Nationalists want ministerial posts but have ‘no extraordinary claims’

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots coalition wants to have seats in a future GERB cabinet but is making no “extraordinary claims”

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Bulgarian nationalist leader Simeonov pushes talk of broad ‘German coalition’ government

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

In spite of repeated insistence by GERB leader Boiko Borissov and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova that they will not

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European and foreign policy implications of Bulgaria’s election

March 28, 2017March 30, 2017 Vessela Tcherneva Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

The EU has dodged a bullet in the Bulgarian elections with the victory of former prime minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.

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Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections: The winners and losers

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

If anyone may fairly be said to have lost Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, Zlatko Zdravkov would be an appropriate

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Borissov: GERB is ‘obliged’ to form the next Bulgarian government

March 26, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Speaking just more than an hour after exit polls showed that his centre-right party had gained the most votes in

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Bulgaria 

Voting ends in Bulgaria parliamentary elections: Borissov’s GERB 32.2%, Ninova’s BSP 28% – exit poll

March 26, 2017January 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Moments after voting ended in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, an exit poll said that Boiko Borissov’s centre-right

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 24

March 24, 2017March 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Russia, Turkey

Campaigning in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 elections closes – or is by law, is required to, lest anyone carry on

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Bulgaria 

Exacta Research Group: GERB 31.2%, Bulgarian Socialist Party 28.1%, ‘Patriots’ 10.5% as election campaign ends

March 24, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

A poll by the Exacta Research group released on March 24, the final day of campaigning in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections,

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Bulgaria elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 23

March 23, 2017March 24, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey, Volen Siderov

With just a day left to campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections, political party leaders were making their

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