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Mariya Gabriel currently serves as European Commissioner for innovation and research, overseeing programmes such as Horizon Europe and Erasmus.

Bulgarians say they hope for a stable government at last as they head to the polls. The EU's poorest Member State is traditionally close to Moscow but has been divided by the war in Ukraine, which has exacerbated the state's political turmoil.

The surveys by Gallup International and Alpha Research show the party, blamed for years of corruption, coming top with between 24.6%-25.5% of the vote.

He was detained in Sofia late on Thursday.

The agreement followed lengthy talks between the winner of last month’s general election, the centrist We Continue the Change (PP) party, two right-leaning parties and a Socialist party. They should control 134 seats in Bulgarias 240-seat parliament.

Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov has said he will not stand to lead the next government. Borissovs centre-right GERB party won the most seats in last weeks election but fell well short of a majority. But the long-serving prime minister said he would not "divide" the nation. "I have always believed that unity makes strength," Borissov said in a statement on Wednesday. "I will not be the candidate for prime minister, but I will propose another prime minister with a very clear European and ...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissovs centre-right GERB party was leading results of the countrys parliamentary election on Monday with an estimated 25.8% of the vote, the central electoral commission said. But the three-time premier lost ground to protest parties amid accusations of endemic corruption. In comparison, his party had secured 33.5% of seats at the 2017 election. Bulgarians voted Sunday in a parliamentary election widely seen as a referendum on Borissov after months of anti-gove...

It may prove difficult to build a working coalition in Bulgaria after a surprise kingmaker is set to take the political scene in Sofia by storm. Known simply as SLAVI to most Bulgarians, Slavi Trifonov now leads the new anti-establishment party called There Is Such A People. Created last year during the anti-corruption protests, he could make it harder for incumbent Boyko Borissov to form a new coalition. The newly formed party was expected to score big, but no one predicted how big. It could...

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