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Socialist Party Wants Early General Elections
November 13 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will turn down a possible mandate to form a government under the present Parliament, BSP leader Kornelia Ninova said here Sunday. She was speaking at a news conference held after it transpired that the BSP-backed candidate, ...
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Socialist-backed Candidate Wins Presidential Runoffs in Bulgaria - Exit Polls
November 13 (BTA) - The Socialist-backed Rumen Radev won the second round of presidential elections in Bulgaria on November 14, according to exit polls. Polling agency announced that he leads with close to 60 per cent of the votes against some 35 per cent for the candidate of the...
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PM Confirms That Government Steps Down after Loss in Presidential Elections
November 13 (BTA) - Addressing a news conference held Sunday evening immediately after it became clear that the candidate of the ruling party loses Bulgaria's presidential runoffs, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that he resigns on the first working day of Parliament after the...
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Socialist-backed Candidate Wins Presidential Runoffs in Bulgaria - Exit Polls
Sofia, November 13 (BTA) - The Socialist-backed Rumen Radev won the second round of presidential elections in Bulgaria on November 14, according to exit polls. Polling agency announced that he leads with close to 60 per cent of the votes against some 35 per cent for the candidate...
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CEC: Turnout in Presidential Vote at 41.93% at 5:00 PM
November 13 (BTA) - Central Election Commission (CEC) spokesperson Kamelia Neykova said voter turnout in Sunday's presidential runoff was at 41.93 per cent by 5:00 pm. The highest voter turnout as of 5:00 pm was registered in Sofia Region - 49.82 per cent, while the lowest...
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Gale- to Hurricane-force Winds in Northeast Bulgaria Cause Damage, Interrupt Power Supply
November 13 (BTA) - Gale-force winds reaching 100 km/h in northeast Bulgaria have left 148 settlements without power on Sunday, said the Energo Pro electricity distribution company. Some 37 villages in the Region of Silistra are without electricity, followed by 33 settleme...
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Outgoing President Plevneliev: "My Goal is Ensuring Stability in the Country"
November 13 (BTA) - "Putting together a care-taker cabinet is not a goal in and of itself for me. My goal is to ensure that there is stability in the country, that the institutions are working. As of today, both Parliament and the Government are working," outgoing President R...
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Roumen Radev: "I Voted for Bulgaria's Own Good"
"I believe we conducted an ethical campaign, from start to finish," Radev said, adding that therefore the moral victory is in the bag but the political outcome depends on everyone's vote. Radev cautioned against complacency. "The Bulgarian citizens should go to the polls t...
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Tsetska Tsacheva: "I Voted for Bulgaria to Remain Factor of Stability"
November 13 (BTA) - "I voted for Bulgaria to remain a factor of stability - we need to press on," presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva said after casting her ballot in Sunday's runoff. "The last thing Bulgaria needs is international isolation, halted EU funding, denied ...
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PM: Election Defeat Would Mean GERB Taking No Part in Running Country
November 13 (Genka Ivanova of BTA) - GERB will take no part in running the country if it loses Sunday's presidential elections, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said after casting his vote. Borissov was asked if he would resort to the legal option of forming a new government ...
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Socialist-backed Radev Faces Ruling GERB'S Candidate Tsacheva in Bulgaria's Presidential Runoff
November 13 (BTA) - Socialist-backed Rumen Radev faces off the candidate of the ruling GERB Tsetska Tsacheva in a second round of Bulgarian presidential elections on Sunday. The runoffs are held now after none of the 21 candidates managed to win more than half of the votes in the...
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Sofia Hosts World Sambo Championships
November 12 (BTA) - Sports Minister Krassen Kralev Friday opened the World Sambo Championships in Sofia. More than 600 wrestlers arrived from 87 countries for the event, which is part of the Sofia - European Capital of Sport initiative. SAMBO International Federation (FIA...
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No Bulgarian Servicemen Injured in Bagram Air Base Blast
November 12 (BTA) - No Bulgarian servicemen were injured in an explosion at the largest US military base in Afghanistan early on Saturday morning, the Defence Ministry said. The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device at Bagram Airfield, 50 km north of the capit...
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Referendum Proclaimed as Not Binding
November 11 (BTA) - The national referendum held on November 6 simultaneously with the Bulgarian presidential elections is not legally binding, because the number of voters who took part in it was below the threshold of 3 500 585 people, the Central Election Commission (CEC) anno...
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1,600 Small and Mid-Sized Romanian Companies Operate in Bulgaria
November 11 (BTA) - Speakers at a business forum in Sofia Friday said that Romania is a major trading partner of Bulgaria, receiving the third largest share of Bulgarian exports to the EU after Germany and Italy and being Bulgaria's fourth most important trading partner in the wo...
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Industrial Enterprises Expect Decline in Investment for 2016 - Statistics
November 11 (BTA) - Entrepreneurs expect 15.2 per cent decline of investments in 2016 compared to 2015, according to the investment survey of the National Statistical Institute for October. The largest relative share of investments is expected in the production of goods for media...
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Prime Minister, Ministers Open Bulgaria-Romania Gas Interconnector
November 11 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Bulgaria's and Romania's energy ministers Temenouzhka Petkova and Victor Grigorescu, respectively, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev and a representative of the European Commission opened the Bulgaria-Romania gas interconnec...
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DSB Leader to Party Faithful Ahead of Presidential Poll: Vote Your Conscience
November 11 (BTA) - DSB leader Radan Kanev called on the party's members to vote their conscience ahead of Bulgaria's presidential runoff. The second round of the presidential elections will be contested by Rumen Radev, an independent supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party...
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Reformist Bloc Continues Onward without Democrats for Strong Bulgaria
November 11 (BTA) - The four remaining parties in the right-wing Reformist Bloc (RB): the Bulgaria for the Citizens Movement, the Union of Democratic Forces, the Bulgarian National Agrarian Union, and the Freedom and Dignity People's Party, have countersigned an agreement express...
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Alpha Research: Radev Has 10% Lead on Tsacheva in Final Poll before Presidential Runoffs
November 11 (BTA) - A final poll among voters held by Alpha Research and Nova TV three days ahead of the presidential runoffs in Bulgaria shows that the Socialist-backed candidate Roumen Radev gets 49.6 per cent of support among those who are determined to vote, and the candidate...