Politics notices and news from Bulgaria.
A month before Sunday's vote, every major pollster had Iliana Yotova at least 17 points ahead of Andrey Gyurov and some had her within reach of 50 percent. When the Central Election Commission announced the official result, the incumbent president had 528,951 votes, or 34.76 percent, against Gyurov'
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The Central Election Commission (CEC) has confirmed that Bulgaria’s October 25 presidential election failed to produce a winner, with only 1,525,034 of the country’s 6,584,025 eligible voters casting ballots, or nearly 23%, according to the final results announced by the Commission. “No president or
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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova said she sees no escalation in relations with North Macedonia over Iva Mihailova’s stay in Bulgaria, stressing in an interview with bTV that Skopje must fulfill its commitments to the European Union and improve conditions for Bulgarians living in the coun
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The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has asked a court to keep Turkish businessman Eyup Temiz in permanent detention after charging him with the intentional killing of former Member of the European Parliament Slavi Binev, while media reports have raised questions about a business dispute and footage h
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Ivaylo Mirchev, co-chair of Yes, Bulgaria, has accused Revival leader Kostadin Kostadinov of effectively supporting Iliana Yotova in the presidential runoff by ruling out votes from his party’s supporters for her rival, Andrey Gyurov, despite having demanded Yotova’s resignation days earlier. In a F
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Germany is criticizing Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for refusing to contribute to financial guarantees for a planned new EU loan to Ukraine, with the dispute threatening to complicate negotiations over the bloc’s budget, German newspaper Die Welt reports. Hungary, the Czech Rep
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The Association of European Journalists in Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) has accused the government press office of creating conditions for censorship after it instructed media outlets to report Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s statements accurately and in full, amid a controversy over his support for preside
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The European Union plans to expand Frontex’s powers to help deport irregular migrants from one non-EU country to another, extending the bloc’s migration operations beyond its borders, several EU officials told Euronews anonymously. The European Commission is due to present the reforms on Tuesday, gr
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Bulgaria’s Government Information Service has rejected accusations that the Council of Ministers’ official communication channels were used for election campaigning in support of Iliana Yotova, urging media outlets to report Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s positions accurately. The statement followed a
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Presidential candidate Andrey Gyurov accused Prime Minister Rumen Radev of using the Council of Ministers’ official channels to promote Iliana Yotova and attack her political opponents, warning against the use of state institutions for election campaigning. “Mr. Radev, you hold an absolute majority
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