Today, November 5, the second round of the local elections is taking place in Bulgaria , with 6,038,052 voters having the right to vote. Mayors are elected where none of the candidates managed to win more than 50% of the votes in the first round last..
Bulgaria's Central Election Commission gave permission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to start the transportation of the voting machines at 5:00 p.m. from the storage warehouse in Sofia according to an approved transportation plan. In the local..
According to Transparency International, the way the first round of the election for municipal councilors and mayors was conducted once more highlights significant problems which call into question the fairness of the electoral process. The..
“The best way we can get Sofia back is by losing it. We now need to save it from the saviours – I know these people, they are incapable of working, they are lazy,” said GERB leader Boyko Borissov in his first comment after the first round of the local..
“The best way we can get Sofia back is by losing it. We now need to save it from the saviours – I know these people, they are incapable of working, they are lazy,” said GERB leader Boyko Borissov in his first comment after the first round of the local..
At a sitting today, the Central Election Commission (CEC) confirmed its decision from last night for the local election on 29 October, and the possible run-off on 5 November to take place by paper ballot only. PM Nikolai Denkov urges Central..
In response, Rositsa Mateva stated, in an interview with bTV, that all municipal election commissions have to obey the CEC’s decision, and that there will be no machine voting in the country. She said she did not understand how the municipal..
If elections for parliament were to be held today, GERB/SDS would be the first political force, indicates a representative survey conducted September 26-October 8 by Market Links, and financed by the agency and by bTV. GERB/SDS garners..
The Central Election Commission has shown samples of the paper and the e-ballots for the local election on 29 October for mayors and municipal councilors. The longest ballot will be for municipal councilors in Sofia – 60 cm. At this time, the..
A meeting of the temporary parliamentary committee checking all the facts and circumstances related to the security of machine voting takes place today, as the meeting was called by President of the National Assembly Rosen..
