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Bulgaria to hold runoff election in its presidential race [Oct 28, 2011] SOFIA, Bulgaria ? Bulgaria has announced the final results from last week?s presidential election, and the top two candidates who will compete in a runoff. The election commission said Thursday that of the 18 candidates in last Sunday?s vote, Rosen Plevneliev, the governing GERB party?s candidate, finished first with 40.11 percent, and Ivailo Kalfin of the opposition Socialist Party second with ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to hold runoff election in its presidential race [Oct 27, 2011] SOFIA, Bulgaria ? Bulgaria has announced the final results from last week?s presidential election, and the top two candidates who will compete in a runoff. The election commission said Thursday that of the 18 candidates in last Sunday?s vote, Rosen Plevneliev, the governing GERB party?s candidate, finished first with 40.11 percent, and Ivailo Kalfin of the opposition Socialist Party second with ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Kuneva Denies Flirting with Socialists over Presidency Bid [Oct 24, 2011] Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's former European Commissioner, who finished third in the presidential elections on Sunday, has vehemently denied claims that her nomination was at one point embraced by the previously ruling Socialist Party. "I have never discussed this issue and have never taken part in meetings that discussed it," Kuneva said at a press conference after exit polls emerged in response ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Marks Communist Take-Over Anniversary Divided [Sep 09, 2011] The emblematic until recently date September 9, marking Bulgaria's anti-fascist uprising in 1944, will be marked in polar ways by political forces here. Celebrations across the country, initiated by the Socialist Party, will mark the 67th anniversary since the communist take-over, while members of the democracy-forbearer, the Union of Democratic Forces, will bow heads to commemorate the victims ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ex PM Denies Charges, Slams 'Political Tricks' [Aug 19, 2011] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former prime minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, who was charged last year over the leak of a classified report on organized crime, said it was no accident that the deadlock in his trial was broken now. "The investigation against me from the very beginning is highly politicized. It was a year ago when my lawyer forecast the case will enter the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ex PM Stanishev Escapes Court, Faces Slim Fine [Aug 17, 2011] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former prime minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, who was charged last year over the leak of a classified report on organized crime, should be punished with a fine, prosecutors have said. Prosecutors say the former prime minister is guilty of losing seven confidential documents, which he has received personally and has signed. The indictment was ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ex PM: My Trial Part of Vote 2011 Parapharnelia [Jul 03, 2011] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former prime minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, who was charged last year over the leak of a classified report on organized crime, expects the deadlock in his trial to be broken right before the elections. "I expect to see developments in the case ahead of the upcoming general elections in the autumn,", Sergey Stanishev told Trud daily while in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Still Split over 'Kuneva for President' [Jul 03, 2011] Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's former European Commissioner and candidate for president, continues to be an apple of discord for the members of the previously ruling Socialist Party, analysts say. "The nomination of Meglena Kuneva is enthusiastically embraced and promoted by leader and former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, but the more conservative members of the party vehemently oppose it ... [via YahooNews] More >>

WikiLeaks: Bulgaria's Ex Economy Minister Rumen Ovcharov Controversial, Charming [May 30, 2011] Diplomatic cables of the US embassy in Sofia, dated February 26, 2007, has been revealed on WikiLeaks and provided to the project for investigative journalism www.bivol.bg, bringing out new details about the dark side of Bulgaria's former Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov, a member of the Socialist Party. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Split over 'Kuneva for President' Calls [Apr 13, 2011] Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's former European Commissioner, who is likely to run for president, has turned into the latest apple of discord for the members of the previously ruling Socialist Party. One of the criteria, which party top brass recently approved for eligible presidential candidates, is that he/she should be popular in the European Union institutions, a loophole, which will make ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Former PM Stanishev May Escape Court [Mar 18, 2011] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former prime minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, is likely to steer clear of the court room despite charges over the leak of a classified report on organized crime. "The prosecutor's office will make one more and last attempt to find the confidential documents, which triggered the investigation against Sergey Stanishev. This is the reason why the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ruling Party Doing 3 Times Better Than Opposition [Sep 10, 2010] Bulgaria's ruling center-right party GERB enjoys the support of 32% of Bulgarians vs. 10.4% for the largest opposition formation, the Socialist Party, a poll shows. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Ex Ministers Face Grilling over Corruption Charges Sept [Aug 17, 2010] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, is expected to be questioned at the beginning of September, nearly two months after he was formally charged over the leak of a classified report on organized crime that shattered the country last year. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Former Prime Minister Stanishev Formally Charged [Jul 14, 2010] Sergey Stanishev, Bulgaria's former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Socialist Party, has been formally charged over the leak of a classified report on organized crime that shattered the country at the end of last year. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Pick Yuppie for Sofia Mayor Runner [Jun 27, 2010] Bulgaria's Socialist Party is expected to elect on Sunday Georgi Kadiev, city councilor and failed runner for mayor of Sofia, to be its candidate in the upcoming local elections in the capital next year. [via YahooNews] More >>

Socialists Demand Audit over Bulgaria's Carbon Trade Ban [May 14, 2010] The opposition Socialist Party has demanded a public review of Bulgaria's national inventory system for greenhouse gas emissions a day after the Cabinet announced the UN was to ban the country from trading with carbon quotas. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Opposition Socialists Threaten No-Confidence Vote [May 11, 2010] Bulgarias opposition Socialist Party has vowed to challenge the center-right government with a no-confidence vote, to be tabled in parliament within a month. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Appeal Removal of Municipal Council Chair [May 05, 2010] Bulgaria's Socialist party is outraged at the removal of top BSP member Gutsanov from the post of chair of the Varna Municipal Council over alleged malfeasance. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Ex PM Expects to Be 'Blamed for Everything' [Apr 29, 2010] Bulgaria's ex PM and Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev said that he expected to be blamed for everything commenting on information that he will face charges after the May holidays. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria MPs Debate Eased Ban on Smoking [Apr 16, 2010] Bulgaria's parliament will start on Friday to debate at first reading a ruling-party proposal water down a new smoking ban in the country. The draft legislation has surprisningly managed to fuse the ruling centre-right Gerb with the main opposition Socialist Party. [via YahooNews] More >>