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The Central Election Commission (CEC) met on April 11 its deadline for declaring the names of those deemed elected as members of Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly, following the parliamentary elections a week earlier.
Fourteen of the initial 240 names notified the CEC that they did not want to take up their seats, among them GERB party leader and current Prime Minister Boiko Borissov.
Word is now awaited from head of state President Roumen Radev, who has up to a month after the elections to convene the first sitting of the National Assembly. Should Radev not do so, Parliament may be convened by at least a fifth of its members.
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No peak in Covid-19 infections is expected after the elections published on 4/6/21 10:29 AM
Dr. Nikolay Branzalov
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The gathering of many people during the transmission of the election protocols will not lead to a new peak in the incidence of coronavirus in the country, said for BNT Dr. Nikolay Branzalov, Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian Medical Union.
At the moment there is no increase in the number of patients and it is even slightly decreasing, he said.
The doctor confirmed that all anti-epidemic measures were observed during the elections. In order to avoid crowding in the future, Dr. Nikolay Branzalov recommends the introduction of electronic voting, because it is accurate and objective.
Bulgaria’s April 2021 parliamentary
elections: Winners and losers”.
But, quite obviously, going by the headline above, it is not.
Connoisseurs not only of irony but also of recent Bulgarian political history will appreciate the fact that, according to Alpha Research, six per cent of those who turned out this past summer to protest for the resignation of Boiko Borissov’s GERB-led government voted, this day April 4 2021, for it to stay in office.
In point of fact, all we may take away from April 4 is that some gained and some lost.
Soon after voting ended, Maya Manolova, a leader of the coalition with the anti-government protest movement The Poison Trio of this past summer, insisted that Borissov’s GERB had lost, and that the “protest vote” had won.