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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Day 348 published on 2/18/21 5:37 PM | updated on 2/18/21 7:40 PM Photo: BTA Half of the country's districts are now in the red zone: Weekly briefing of the National Coronavirus Operational Headquarters The incidence of coronavirus cases has increased by 24% this week compared to the previous seven days and half of the country's districts are now in the red zone, Gen. Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, Head of the National Operational Headquarters, said. Last week the number of patients was 139 per 100,000, but now figures are up to 173 per 100,000. The numb...

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) opened on February 8 the registration of political parties and coalitions for participation in the April 4 National Assembly elections. In recent years, traditionally the first to register was Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, with the documents being delivered by the then-head of the party’s election campaign staff, Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Tsvetanov, who now has his own Republicans for Bulgaria party, had intended to cock a snook at GERB by being first to register on February 8, but was pipped to the post by the reformist Democratic Bul...

Send to Kindle Joe Biden's election as President of the United States has sparked positive reactions across Europe, where both citizens and politicians seem equally relieved by the “changing of the guards” in the White House. A recent survey by the European Council on Foreign Policy (ECFP) found that 53% of citizens of 11 European countries think Biden will bring positive change to their countries, while 54% say Trump has destabilized the world. The difference with Bulgarian public opinion is significant: according to Alpha Research data from November 2020, only 27% of Bulgarians believe ...

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev announced on Thursday that he has set an April 4 date for the country's next general election.

Dnevnik More than 40 percent of Bulgarians expect that there will be no landslide winner in the upcoming parliamentary elections, they rather think that several parties will have close results. In this situation, an equal number of people are to form governing coalitions with the political formations garnering the most votes - GERB and BSP.  The next parliament will be fragmented - most likely it will comprise six parties that will have difficulty in forming a cabinet. Three months before the expected date of the vote, the number of people who are determined to vote but are hesitant ab...