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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Mixed reactions to Plevneliev’s decision not to appoint caretaker cabinet

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

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 to step down as leader of his ABC party

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov

Georgi Purvanov said on December 21 that he would step down from the leadership of his ABC party at a

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Bulgaria 

Purvanov’s ABC party names Kalfin as presidential candidate

September 15, 2016September 19, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

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

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

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

January 25, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev

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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Bulgaria 

Minority party threatens to back out of Bulgarian coalition government unless Bokova named UNSG candidate

January 14, 2016February 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Irina Bokova

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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Bulgaria 

Controversy continues over Bulgarian church honouring Saxe-Coburg as ‘king’

May 4, 2015May 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev

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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Bulgaria 

Purvanov re-elected leader of minority socialist ABC, two months after resignation

April 26, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov

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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Bulgaria 

Purvanov says he will resign as leader of his party over its turnabout on foreign borrowing

February 26, 2015February 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov

Georgi Purvanov said on February 26 that he would resign as leader of his ABC party, a day after some

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