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Four of the 20 candidates in the autumn 2019 mayoral elections in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia met in a debate broadcast live on Bulgarian National Television’s weekly Referendum programme on […]
Campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 mayoral and municipal elections is at its midway point, with two more weeks to go, and the many thousands of candidates are criss-crossing the […]
Ladies and gentlemen, in the far-right corner, Volen Siderov. In the other far-right corner, Angel Dzhambazki. In short: One of the ultra-nationalist candidates in the autumn 2019 mayoral elections in […]
Results of a poll by the Alpha Research agency released on October 9 show incumbent Sofia mayor and GERB candidate Yordanka Fandukova with a very narrow lead over her main […]
Official campaigning in the autumn 2019 mayoral elections in Sofia has begun, with 20 candidates vying to be first citizen of Bulgaria’s capital city. Predictions are perilous, but the race […]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has overturned a ruling by the Sofia municipal election commission that barred former Mladost district mayor Dessislava Ivancheva from standing as a candidate mayor of […]
The official campaign period in Bulgaria’s 2019 municipal elections begins on September 27, but in capital city Sofia, the race already has begun. The current count of mayoral candidates is […]
Eric Rubin, former United States ambassador to Bulgaria, was among those named an honorary citizen of Bulgaria’s capital city on September 17, the annual Day of Sofia. Rubin, a career […]
A festival entitled “Serdica is my Rome” is to be held in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on September 21 and 22. The organisers said that it will be “the first […]
A festive concert dedicated to understanding, respect and co-operation among the six Abrahamic religious communities is to be held on Nezavisimost Square in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on September 19, […]
