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Bulgaria elections 2017

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Bulgarian election results leave Movements for Rights and Freedoms with little to say

March 26, 2017March 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

It may be that the election night news conference of second-ranked Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova was something of

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Bulgarian socialist leader Ninova: ‘no grand coalition’ possible

March 26, 2017March 28, 2017 Alex Bivol Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Bulgarian socialist party leader Kornelia Ninova struck a civil tone in a brief election night statement on March 26, congratulating

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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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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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Bottlenecks at polling stations in Turkey in Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections

March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

By the afternoon of March 26, voting in Turkey in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections was much lower than in the 2016

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Arrests, fines over breaches of electoral law as Bulgaria votes on March 26

March 26, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

As Bulgarians voted in parliamentary elections on March 26, the head of the Central Election Commission in Bulgaria’s Pleven region

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Voting begins in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 National Assembly elections

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Polls opened in Bulgaria at 7am on March 26 for voting in the country’s ahead-of-term election of a new Parliament.

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Police remove barricades at Turkish-Bulgarian border

March 24, 2017 Deutsche Welle Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Amid growing tension between Sofia and Ankara, Bulgarian police on Friday removed barricades protesters had erected at at least two

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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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