Bulgaria’s political crisis: Mixed reactions to Plevneliev’s decision not to appoint caretaker cabinet
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev’s announcement on December 21 that he would not appoint a caretaker cabinet but would leave this
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Georgi Purvanov
Georgi Purvanov to step down as leader of his ABC party
Georgi Purvanov said on December 21 that he would step down from the leadership of his ABC party at a
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Purvanov’s ABC party names Kalfin as presidential candidate
Georgi Purvanov’s socialist splinter ABC party, one of the two smallest parties in the Bulgarian National Assembly and formerly part
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Bulgarian socialist parties’ presidential electoral alliance fractures into acrimony
The presidential electoral alliance between two of Bulgaria’s socialist parties, that briefly seemed to have seen them drawing closer together,
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Bulgaria’s current and former presidents call for expanding of direct democracy
Rossen Plevneliev and two of his predecessors as Bulgaria’s President have described the October 2015 national referendum as a success
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Minority party threatens to back out of Bulgarian coalition government unless Bokova named UNSG candidate
Georgi Purvanov, leader of minority socialist breakaway party ABC, has threatened to withdraw from his party’s deal to support Bulgaria’s
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Controversy continues over Bulgarian church honouring Saxe-Coburg as ‘king’
The decision by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, for former monarch and former prime minister Simeon
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Purvanov re-elected leader of minority socialist ABC, two months after resignation
Georgi Purvanov, who resigned as leader of Bulgaria’s minority socialist breakaway party ABC on February 26 after a number of
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Purvanov says he will resign as leader of his party over its turnabout on foreign borrowing
Georgi Purvanov said on February 26 that he would resign as leader of his ABC party, a day after some
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