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Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the endorsement – by some, at least – of the Oresharski […]
With the votes of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly voted the socialist-nominated Plamen Oresharski cabinet into power on […]
In his first speech to the new Parliament, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev derided Boiko Borissov’s GERB party as the “mathematical winner” but not the real winner and said […]
Meeting President Rossen Plevneliev on May 17, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev proposed May 21 as the date of the first sitting of the newly-elected Parliament. As the leader […]
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev claimed victory in the parliamentary elections on May 12, urging quick talks with other parties to form a new government that would exclude the […]
Never has labour in Bulgaria been so humiliated, having to choose between paying their electricity bills or buying food, Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Sergei Stanishev told a May Day […]
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev was to be questioned by prosecutors on April 24 about allegations he submitted of illegal electronic eavesdropping by Boiko Borissov’s centre-right government, while on […]
GERB election campaign chief Tsvetan Tsvetanov should withdraw from politics, given his promise to do so should the Interior Ministry be found to have been involved in illegal electronic surveillance, […]
A victory by the socialist-led Coalition for Bulgaria in the May 12 2013 parliamentary elections would mean a government programme including restarting the Belene nuclear power station project and ending […]
Perhaps when April 12 brings the formal start of the campaign period ahead of Bulgaria’s May 12 national parliamentary elections, the placing of the figureheads of the two major rival […]
