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Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party has a slim lead over the anti-establishment ITN before a July 11 election, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.

With a few days to go before the official campaigning period ahead of Bulgaria’s July 11 early parliamentary elections, Boyko Borissov’s GERB-UDF electoral coalition has 20.3 per cent of support among those who intend to vote, with Slavi Trifonov’s ITN party close behind at 18.2 per cent, according to the results of a poll released by Alpha Research on June 9. In third place is Kornelia Ninova’s Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) at 14.4 per cent, Democratic Bulgaria (DB) at 11.9 per ce...

By Syndicated Content Jun 9, 2021 | 5:17 AM SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party has a slim lead over the anti-establishment ITN before a July 11 election, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. It maintained its lead despite a drop in support since the United States imposed sanctions on two Bulgarian oligarchs and four former and current officials over alleged corruption on June 2. The parliamentary election next month was called after an April 4 election re...

The United States has slapped economic sanctions on three Bulgarian individuals, including a power broker and a gambling tycoon, as well as dozens of companies they allegedly own or control for their “extensive roles” in corruption in Bulgaria.

The caretaker government started its work with high expectations - to show what can be done, albeit for a limited period, after strong polarization and confrontation in Bulgarian society, said to BNT the sociologist Boryana Dimitrova from...

poll by Alpha Research has found that 63.2 per cent of Bulgarians disapprove of the refusal by cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov’s TISP political party to seek to form a government. The poll was done for Bulgarian National Television’s weekly Referendum programme and the results were shown a day after Trifonov announced the decision and the night before his prime minister-designate, Antoaneta Stefanova, received the mandate and immediately handed it back. Alpha Research said t...

A poll by Alpha Research has found that 63.2 per cent of Bulgarians disapprove of the refusal by cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov’s ITN political party to seek to form a government. The poll was done for Bulgarian National Television’s weekly Referendum programme and the results were shown a day after Trifonov announced the decision and the night before his prime minister-designate, Antoaneta Stefanova, received the mandate and immediately handed it back. Alpha Research said that 3...

Bulgarias Roma Cambridge village pushes education Issued on: 23/04/2021 - 11:32 Printsessa Ivanova wants to follow in the steps of other Roma from her village who have university degrees Nikolay DOYCHINOV AFP 4 min Dolni Tsibar (Bulgaria) (AFP) Roma student Printsessa Ivanova is cramming hard at her village in Bulgarias poor northwest, preparing for college entrance exams. The teenager, whose name means "princess", wants to become a psychologist, fol...

FACTBOX - Bulgaria ahead of April 4 general election Author: National Assembly of Bulgaria / All rights reserved. SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 1 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria will hold regular parliamentary elections on Sunday, after the coalition government of centre-right party GERB and its junior partners - nationalist parties VMRO and NFSB, served its full four-year term. A total of 30 parties and coalitions are running for 240 seats in the unicameral National Assembly. To secure repres...

About 57.5 per cent of Bulgarians want to see a new government formed, while 30.4 per cent want the country to hold another parliamentary election, according to a poll by Alpha Research for public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television’s weekly talk show Referendum. The National Assembly elected on April 4 will hold its first sitting on April 15, with all eyes on the possible formation of a government. GERB leader Boiko Borissov, whose party got the largest share of votes, will not have su...