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Bulgaria local elections 2019

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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Manolova camp to seek nullification of Sofia mayoral vote

November 4, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Sofia

The initiative committee that nominated Maya Manolova in the Sofia mayoral elections said after her second-round defeat that it would

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Shaken? Debatable. Stirred? Perhaps. Bulgarian PM Borissov after the local elections

November 3, 2019November 6, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria local elections 2019

Four years ago around this time, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of his centre-right GERB party, was rampant. GERB

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Bulgaria’s second-round mayoral elections: Wins and reverses for ruling party – exit polls

November 3, 2019November 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Exit polls immediately after voting ended on November 3 in second-round mayoral elections in many parts of Bulgaria showed Prime

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Bulgarian media again violate law against posting exit polls while voting is proceeding

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Media

The second round of voting in mayoral elections in Bulgaria on November 3 again saw a number of websites breaking

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Voting begins in Bulgaria’s November 3 second-round mayoral elections

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Polling stations opened on the morning of November 3 in municipalities in Bulgaria where second-round mayoral elections are being held

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Three charged in northern Bulgarian town for vote-buying in local elections – report

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

The District Prosecutor’s Office in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa in northern Bulgaria has lodged criminal charges against three men

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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Notes from week five

November 1, 2019November 3, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria local elections 2019, Plovdiv, Rousse, Sofia, Varna

To channel Highlander, Sunday is coming – and there can only be one. In Sofia and 18 other cities that

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Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist VMRO endorses Fandukova in Sofia mayoral election run-off

October 31, 2019November 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Sofia

The ultra-nationalist VMRO has endorsed GERB candidate Yordanka Fandukova in the November 3 second round of mayoral elections in Bulgaria’s

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BSP, Democratic Bulgaria decline to endorse either candidate in Plovdiv mayoral run-off election

October 31, 2019November 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Plovdiv

The Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Democratic Bulgaria coalition in Plovdiv have declined to endorse either candidate in the city’s

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