The mayors in almost all big Bulgarian cities will be elected at run-off elections, the exit poll results of the first round of the mayoral elections show. According to data of Gallup sociological agency, the candidates of the ruling GERB party will be elected as mayors at the first round in Burgas and Varna. In Sofia the current mayor Yordanka Fandakova earned 34.7% of the votes and the independent candidate Maya Manolova, supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, earned 24.6% of the votes. GERB-SDS wins 33% of the seats at the municipal council, Democratic Bulgaria earned 17%, BSP-16%, the independent candidate Boris Bonev-10.6%, VMRO-5%, Ataka-2%.
Most of the country will be cloudy on Thursday . Showers will occur in the afternoon in the south-west and in isolated places in the north-east. Minimum temperatures will range from 9°C in the west to 15°C in the east, 12°C in Sofia. Highs will be..
The Council of Ministers has granted the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant a derogation from the European regulation on restrictive measures in light of Russia's actions in Ukraine. With this derogation, Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant and its largest..
At today’s meeting, the Council of Ministers approved the opening of a consulate of Namibia in Bulgaria, headed by an honorary consular official based in Sofia. Bulgarian Mihail Mihaylov will take on the role of honorary consular official. He served..
In response to media reports that a company registered in Bulgaria supplied pagers to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, which were subsequently..
Bulgaria’s support for Ukraine in the context of the ongoing Russian aggression was the focus of a meeting between caretaker Minister of Foreign..
GERB leader Boyko Borissov has called for the resignation of North Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski because of his..
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