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Ataka leader Volen Siderov says that his party’s judgment on Plamen Oresharski, the socialist nominee to be prime minister in its planned “programme government”, will depend on Oresharski’s achievements in […]
GERB, Boiko Borissov’s party that got the largest share of votes in Bulgaria’s May 12 parliamentary elections but will be left unable to form a government in the face of […]
Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, said by exit polls to have gained by a slight margin the largest share of votes in the May 12 2013 parliamentary elections, declined to […]
Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Ataka party, was pressed repeatedly on election night about his stance on future coalition negotiations with the leaders of the country’s major political parties […]
The beginning of the final week of the parliamentary election campaign in Bulgaria brought no new revelations in the ongoing eavesdropping row, although the issue remained firmly in focus on […]
In another day of drama in Bulgaria’s eavesdropping controversy, the Supreme Judicial Council voted unanimously to accept the resignation of Nikolai Kokinov as Sofia Chief Prosecutor – but declined to […]
Within a few hours of former cabinet minister Miroslav Naidenov alleging that Tsvetan Tsvetanov had been behind illegal eavesdropping on the entire Borissov cabinet, Naidenov had been granted bodyguards and […]
Boiko Borissov and his centre-right GERB party, facing volleys of calls for election campaign chief and former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov to quit politics over the illicit eavesdropping scandal, have […]
Perhaps when April 12 brings the formal start of the campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 national parliamentary elections, the placing of the figureheads of the two major rival […]
Bulgaria’s day of national mourning on March 6 2013 for Plamen Goranov, the protester who died several days after setting himself on fire outside the Varna municipal offices, saw no […]
