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Torchlight political processions do not have the most fortunate associations given the history of Europe in the 20th century, but just such an event was planned for November 3 by […]
November 2 left Bulgaria’s 21 presidential candidates with just three days, counting Wednesday itself, to persuade the electorate to support them in Sunday’s vote. By the late afternoon on Wednesday, […]
With five days to go before Bulgaria’s November 6 presidential elections, there seems scant to no chance that voters will see the two leading candidates debate each other again. GERB’s […]
Monday October 31 finds Bulgaria’s 21 presidential candidates in the final week ahead of what is likely to prove to be just the first-round vote to choose a new head […]
In the week ending on October 30, Bulgaria’s Parliament approved last-minute changes to electoral laws, the government played cut-price Father Christmas by announcing December bonuses for the lowest-income pensioners, Prime […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 29 that incumbent head of state President Rossen Plevneliev will not be the country’s candidate to succeed Kristalina Georgieva as a member […]
Bulgaria’s largest parliamentary party GERB and the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition have launched verbal attacks on the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, saying their […]
More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to choose a new president – though they have the option […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 27 that he would not veto the last-minute changes to the Electoral Code approved by Parliament the previous day, but would act to […]
With 12 days to go before Bulgaria’s November 6 presidential elections, the country’s Parliament approved on October 26 the second reading of amendments to the Electoral Code on the number […]
