In the first round of local elections, only 8 of the country's regional mayors were elected. A run-off will be held on November 5 in all the remaining 19 regional cities, including the three largest - Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. Local government is..
Two main questions dominated the first round of local elections. Will the cancellation of electronic voting just before the election lead to a voter mobilisation amid suspicions of a last-minute attempt to rig the vote? Will it lead to a change of..
"The subject must be undoubtedly literate, have a satisfactory command of beautiful handwriting, read quickly silently without staring, and most of all have a satisfactory command of simple calculations - the multiplication table and other arithmetic..
Three days before Bulgaria goes to the polls for local elections, a survey by Alpha Research shows that the candidate for mayor of Sofia, Vassil Terziev of We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) and Save Sofia, has the largest share of..
Conservatives cede Athens and Thessaloniki to left wing When the opposition rallied under the motto “everyone against the conservatives”, this brought about an unexpected turn in the results of the second round of the local elections in..
On the eve of the local elections in Bulgaria which will take place on October 29, suspicions of an organized documented internal migration of voters in order to influence the outcome of the election are again appearing. The phenomenon in question is..
A total of 5,257 are the populated places in Bulgaria, according to the data of the National Statistical Institute. Of these, there are 257 cities, 4998 villages, as well as the Klisura and Rila monasteries, which have the status of settlements. More..
GERB leader Boyko Borissov warned "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB) that he could trigger early elections if the coalition continues to downplay the role of GERB-SDS in the government's achievements. "If you do not correct..
"You hear the sirens, they stop, and then the crackling, the rumbling starts... You don't know if in the next three to four seconds you'll survive!" is how Bulgarian singer Vasko Vasilev - Bazilio, who ended up in the epicentre of the fighting in Tel..
Empathy and concern - this is what the actions of the Bulgarian state in the first hours of the full-scale war that started in the state of Israel speak for. Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov categorically condemned the terrorist attacks of the..
Having completed regional testing of the new BG-ALERT emergency alert system for Bulgaria, a national test will be held on 29 November. It will take..
Romania's and Bulgaria's accession to Schengen will not be subjected to a vote during the Justice and Home Affairs Council on December 4 and 5. This was..
Norway is not a country known to attract large numbers of immigrants from Bulgaria. Nevertheless, there are around 6,000 Bulgarian citizens registered..
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