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Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgaria presidential elections November 2016 and national referendum November 2016

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Bulgarian Parliament meets briefly and votes itself back into recess

November 9, 2016November 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgaria’s National Assembly met briefly on November 9, its only item of business to vote itself back into recess, with

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Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Roundup, November 8

November 8, 2016November 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The candidates in the November 13 run-off of Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections, Roumen Radev and Tsetska Tsacheva, will face each

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Bulgaria referendum turnout falls just short of making outcome mandatory

November 8, 2016November 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

The number of ballots cast in Bulgaria’s national referendum, held on the same day as the first round of presidential

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Foreign Minister: Bulgarians abroad will have easier time voting in presidential election runoff

November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov says that voting abroad will proceed more easily at the second round of Bulgaria’s presidential

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Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Roundup, November 7

November 7, 2016November 9, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

A week is a long time in politics, and the runup to Bulgaria’s second-round presidential elections on November 13 is

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Bulgarian elections 2016: Provisional results after 95.2% of ballots processed

November 7, 2016November 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

With 95.2 per cent of ballots processed, the Central Election Commission said on November 7 that Bulgarian Socialist Party-backed candidate

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Bulgaria’s presidential election first round: Winners and losers

November 7, 2016November 9, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Some won by not losing. Some gained in spite of losing. And some clearly lost. That’s the sum of the

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IBNA/Op-Ed: Not a very good year for Bulgarian PM Borissov

November 7, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

Every opinion poll in Bulgaria in recent years shows Boiko Borissov’s GERB party as the one with by far the

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Bulgarian PM Borissov defers question of resignation until after presidential election runoff

November 7, 2016November 8, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

At an impromptu news conference in the first minutes of November 7, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that the

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