Vice President Iliana Iotova stated that accusations will likely be targeted at the new caretaker cabinet that it will be used for political purposes. “This caretaker cabinet is not the president’s. It is time to take off all the masks and say..
Bulgaria is facing the 7 th snap parliamentary election in a row in three years. The reason is that, once again, all three exploratory mandates for the formation of a cabinet which the president hands to parties represented in parliament have..
“For us this election has to be the last for the coming years. No more compromises with the people, with society or with the political system should be made,” said GERB leader Boyko Borissov addressing the party’s youth organization in Plovdiv...
GERB leader Boyko Borissov said that his party would no longer take part in negotiations and that the next step would be elections. Speaking on the sidelines of Parliament, Borissov pointed out that after the rejection of GERB's government..
The Patriarchal Election Church Council has been convened on 30 June to elect a Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox church and Metropolitan of the Sofia diocese. The Bulgarian Patriarch and Sofia Metropolitan Neophyte passed away on 13 March leaving..
"If we had to make a comparison between Bulgaria and the Netherlands, both countries fell into a difficult situation related to the impossibility of forming a government in the past year. It was necessary to resort to extremely..
Today is the last day of campaigning for the 2-in-1 elections in Bulgaria - for national and European Parliament, which will take place on 9 June. Campaigns of political formations and campaigning for the candidates for MPs and MEPs end in 24 hours..
On 9 June, 9,356 voting machines will be in use inside Bulgaria and 245 abroad, Central Election Commission spokesperson Rositsa Mateva said in an interview for bTV. If, for some reason, machine voting cannot continue at any given polling station, the..
Caretaker Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov promised an increased police presence at predetermined locations on election day, 9 June, when elections will be held for National Assembly and for European Parliament. The police will be stationed at..
I will not be Patriarch. This I can declare, and you have no idea who will be the Patriarch," Metropolitan Nikolai of Plovdiv said in Burgas. The comment was made two days after Metropolitan Anthony of Western and Central Europe said that no document..
