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Fallout as Bulgaria’s political crisis takes new turn

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev’s refusal to decree the proposed caretaker cabinet because of the retention of Kalin Stoyanov in the

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Bulgarian President names deputy head of Audit Office as caretaker Prime Minister

August 9, 2024August 9, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev appointed the deputy head of the Audit Office, Goritsa Gruncharova-Kozhareva, as caretaker Prime

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Bulgaria awaits President’s decree of early election date

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024, Roumen Radev

The final stage of attempting to get a government elected having formally failed, it is now in the hands of

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Bulgaria appears set for early elections as populist ITN says it will abandon bid for government

August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Bulgaria appears set for yet another early parliamentary election after populist party ITN, holder of the third and final mandate

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Market Links poll: Borissov’s GERB-UDF has clear lead

August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Were Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections now, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB-UDF coalition would get 23 per cent of the votes

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‘Last chance’: Bulgarian President hands government-forming mandate to Parliament’s smallest group

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024, Roumen Radev

At a brief ceremony on July 29, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev handed Parliament’s smallest group, populist ITN,

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Bulgarian President to offer populist ITN party mandate to seek to form government

July 28, 2024July 28, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev will on July 29 offer the third and final in a series of mandates to seek

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We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria refuses mandate to try to form government

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

A delegation from the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (WCC-DB) parliamentary group, headed by former prime minister Nikolai Denkov, received

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Bulgaria set for next stage in likely futile bid to elect government

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev will on July 22 hand the next in a succession of mandates to

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