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supply – the Studena reservoir - is almost dried out: a fact that local officials concealed for months, likely due to the upcoming at the time local elections, held late October. In December the Prosecutor General announced he will personally oversee the process of
The new Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev announced via the institution’s press office that he will personally oversee the indictments regarding the water crisis in Pernik. Back in November, just after the local elections were over, the town of Pernik woke to wаter
critical levels was uncovered only after the fact and after the local elections (held in October) were over. The authorities could have imposed the water restrictions much earlier for one. But this might have seemed suicidal for the sitting mayor. Still, Vyara Tserovska from the
of the non-parliamentary opposition Democratic Bulgaria. Coincidently, this is the party both PM Boyko Borissov declared as the number-one enemy of GERB after the last local elections. During the press conference after his election, Geshev spoke of “unprecedented
they are there and demonstrated a definite lack of any understanding of the process. Geshev’s vote was on October 24. The nation-wide local elections were scheduled for October 27 and November 3. While Geshev was an important issue still, it was obvious that the subject
after current PM Boyko Borissov and then-Sofia mayor stepped down to become PM. The first round of the local elections in Bulgaria finished with an overall advantage for the ruling party GERB in the larger cities. Although keeping in the lead, however, GERB registered a
billion, 85% of which the agency itself assessed as either difficult to collect or uncollectable altogether. Local elections to take place October 27 across the country Bulgaria will hold local elections on Sunday, October 27. Almost 30’000 candidates are running for
local elections’ campaign The campaign for the upcoming local elections is officially underway since Friday, September 27. There are over 36 thousand candidates for mayor and members of town councils. 19 people are running for Sofia mayor, 14 – for the second
stunts were designed to somehow both help Ivan Geshev’s image for Prosecutor General while helping to improve GERB’s image in Sofia. All backfired one way or another although actual damage could not be known before the local elections and the procedure for appointing
Bulgarian pollster published the results from a poll it conducted about voter support split between Manolova and Fandakova, should the two reach a second round of elections. Although the poll received criticism for its methodology, at that point it seemed widely accepted not only
protests against development projects in the city, published her annual report as national ombudsman almost four months in advance. Asked about why, her office cited heightened public interest in the ombudsman’s work: trivial, yet unlikely. The upcoming local elections in
Ignatov The non-parliamentary coalition of opposition parties Democratic Bulgaria announced its candidacy for mayor of Sofia: the architect Borislav Ignatov. The local elections will be held in the fall. Sofia has been governed by ruling party GERB for over a decade: by current
ago, 6000 machines must be available for the upcoming local elections in the fall. 2019 should be the year, in which paper ballots are abolished completely, according to the law. But now GERB and their coalition partner, the far-right nationalists from the United Patriots
proposed, and which the city council passed through vote. But somehow, a nonbinding recommendation. To whom? GERB is obviously quite worried that further restrictions in the parking regulations in the city center will not do them good in the upcoming local elections, which are
[div class='center_orange']Commentary:[class='center_orange' div] Dribbling along the populist playground The elections are over but PM Boyko Borissov’s flair for populist ideas bordering the dangerously disruptive is as busy as ever
cast abroad. The result is good but will prove meaningful only of the coalition manages to improve it over the next elections (the next elections are local and will be held in the fall). This means two related milestones: one, for the coalition to manage to maintain the good
Elections this Sunday might prove effective at the end. The last polls showed GERB is overrunning the largest opposition, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, which entered the campaign slightly in the lead. The reason was the series of incredible corruption scandals, including
, Borissov went in and put off the testing for after the upcoming elections and the actual implementation – till after the local elections, which will be held in the fall. And just as he is juggling mothers, doctors, freight companies, and who knows who else, on the
than a percent. GERB will have a lot to prove in the upcoming European Elections, but even more importantly, is facing local elections in the fall, while revelations of new GERB ministers, who have struck exclusive real estate property continue to emerge, most recently the
time. Elena Yoncheva will lead BSP ballot for the European elections Former journalist and current MP from the largest parliamentary opposition, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, will be the one to lead BSP’s ballot for the upcoming European elections
approval from the Commission for the Protection of Competition away from being final. This Majority-DPS intertwinement also found a reaffirmation with stalling to deliver restoration to the Elections Act, after DPS got what they wanted and effectively repealed the
elections and political chaos in the country, and a parliamentary crisis or achieve a compromise.” This appeal is almost word-for-word what then-PM Sergey Stanishev told Parliament before the vote for appointing media mogul and Movement for Rights and Freedoms MP
European Parliament in late spring and the local elections in the fall. Those will also help to determine the extent of damage to GERB’s electorate, as well as to see who has managed to best capitalize on it: the more likely ones for now are the parliamentary opposition, the
the incident and went on site to meet with local authorities. “The gypsies in Bulgaria have become exceptionally audacious and the patience of the Bulgarians is running out”, he said. And later made another key statement packed with pre
publicly humiliated. Ivancheva won the last local elections in Mladost as an independent on a platform for ending the excessive construction projects in the district. The commission also went against the head of the Supreme Court of Cassation, Lozan Panov
