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A campaign to get Valeri Simeonov, co-leader of Bulgarian government minority partner the United Patriots, to resign as Deputy Prime Minister is continuing. Simeonov stirred national controversy with harsh words […]
The Bulgarian government has removed Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov as head of the Cabinet’s National Council for Co-operation on Ethnic and Integration Issues, replacing him with Deputy Prime Minister […]
After days of insisting that he would not apologise for controversial remarks that have led to protests demanding his resignation, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov offered a qualified apology […]
The political melodrama in the United Patriots, the minority partner in Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s coalition government, left the “Patriots” anything but united at the end of the day on […]
The leadership of the United Patriots, the grouping of three far-right and ultra-nationalist parties that is the minority partner in Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government, was to meet on the […]
Misnomers in the names of political formations are common. Not all parties, or for that matter countries, that call themselves democratic are truly so. But in Bulgaria, the grouping known […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 22 that he would not force United Patriots co-leader Valeri Simeonov to resign as Deputy Prime Minister because that would “ruin the […]
The infighting in Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist United Patriots continued on October 22 as Ataka leader Volen Siderov demanded a meeting of the government coalition council by the end of the day […]
Protests are to be held in Sofia and five other Bulgarian cities on October 22 demanding the resignation of Valeri Simeonov as Deputy Prime Minister over his comments about protesting […]
Controversy has erupted around Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov after he described protesting mothers of children with disabilities as a “group of shrill women who are speculating with their […]
