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Social Enterprises in for Microcrediting by Mid-2017 - Minister
November 8 (BTA) - Operational Programme Human Resources Development will provide opportunities for microcrediting of social enterprises, Social Policy Minister Zornitsa Roussinova said. She was speaking at Tuesday's opening of an information day under the OP scheme in Sofia.
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Presidential Elections: Roumen Radev Leads with 25.43% of Polls after 100% of Ballots Counted
November 8 (BTA) - Socialist-backed presidential candidate Roumen Radev and his running mate Iliyana Yotova lead with 25.43 per cent of the votes leaving behind the candidates of the ruling GERB party, Tsetska Tsacheva and Plamen Manoushev, with 21.96 per cent, after 100 per cent...
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EU Affairs Council Approves National Positions
November 8 (BTA) - Bulgaria's EU Affairs Council approved the positions which the country will defend during four meetings of the Council of the European Union in Brussels between November 11 and 16, the government press service said on Tuesday. The meetings will be held in vari...
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Bigger Part of Reformist Bloc to Support Tsacheva-Manoushev Pair in Run-off Elections
November 7 (BTA) - The bigger part of the right-wing Reformist Bloc (RB) will support GERB's candidate Tsetska Tsacheva and her running mate Plamen Manoushev at the second round of voting for president next week, Union of Democratic Forces (one of the partners in the RB) Cha...
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Socialist-Backed Presidential Candidate Wins the Most Votes in 20 out of 28 Regions in Bulgaria
November 7 (BTA) - After most tally sheets counted following the first round of presidential elections in Bulgaria November 6, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) seems to contro
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ABV Upholds Call for Early Elections
November 7 (BTA) - "ABV is upholding its call for early elections because the incumbent government has been exhausted in terms of ideas, policies and personalities," ABV leader and former president [2002-2012] Georgi Purvanov told a news conference on Monday.
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Nine Election-related Pre-trial Proceedings Opened
November 7 (BTA) - The prosecuting magistracy has opened nine pre-trial proceedings and 130 preliminary checks nationwide related to the elections for president and the national referendum, sources from the magistracy said Monday.
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Referendum Is 100,000 Votes Short of Having Its Proposals Automatically Accepted - Analyst
November 7 (BTA) - A national referendum on the election system and the party subsidies is just under 100,000 votes short of seeing its proposals automatically accepted by the legislature, social analyst Boryana Dimitrova of Alpha Research said Monday. Her comment was based on a ...
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Movement for Rights and Freedoms Will Not Bargain Off Backing in Run-off
November 7 (BTA) - "The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) will not enter into negotiations on support for a candidate in the second round," the party's Chairman Mustafa Karadayi told an election night news conference here on Sunday. The independent candidate that the MRF bac...
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United Patriots Will Not Ask their Faithful to Vote for Particular Candidate in Second Round
November 7 (BTA) - The United Patriots coalition of the National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB), Ataka and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) will not call on the voters who supported them in the first round of Bulgaria's November 6 presidential ele...
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PM Borissov: GERB Will Resign If Tsacheva Loses in Runoff
November 7 (BTA) - Speaking to journalists together with GERB's presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva, following a meeting at the party headquarters attended by ministers, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that "If we lose in the runoff, we leave government".
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Rumen Radev: "Hope of Change Is Already Tangible"
Sofia, November 6 (BTA) - "The hope of change is already tangible. People want to see more security and effective institutions, a higher standard of living and quality of life, a better working economy, strangling of corruption, cartels and monopolies, an effective judicial refor...
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Vesselin Mareshki: In Second Round, "I Will Most Probably Vote for Tsacheva with Disgust"
November 6 (BTA) - In the second round of the presidential elections, I will most probably vote for Tsetska Tsacheva "with disgust," independent candidate Vesselin Mareshki said on Nova Television, asked whether he would call on his supporters to back Tsacheva or Rumen Radev. "I ...
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Reformist Bloc, Except for DSB, Will Support Tsacheva in 2nd Round of Presidential Elections - UDF Leader Loukarski
November 6 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc (RB) will support Tsetska Tsacheva in the second round of presidential elections, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) Bozhidar Loukarski told journalists here on Sunday evening. Loukarski's party is part of the Bloc. He said that h...
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Most Voters Answered "Yes" to All Three Referendum Questions
November 6 (BTA) - An overwhelming majority of voters gave "yes" answers to all three questions in Sunday's national referendum, but it is not yet clear whether the turnout was high enough to accept the proposals.
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Socialist-Backed Radev Ahead of GERB's Tsacheva in First Round of Presidential Elections - Parallel Counts
November 7 (BTA) - Socialist-backed presidential candidate Rumen Radev is ahead of GERB's candidate Tsetska Tsacheva by 1 to 3 percentage points after the first round of Bulgaria's presidential elections, show polling agencies' parallel vote counts reported by the electronic medi...
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Voter Turnout by 5:00 PM in Presidential Elections at 44.83%, 39.15% in Referendum - Central Election Commission
November 6 (BTA) - Voter turnout by 5:00 pm in the presidential elections was 44.83 per cent and 39.15 per cent in the referendum, the Central Election Commission reported. This means that a total of 3,063,732 Bulgarians have voted for president and 2,675,768 have voted in the re...
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Presidential Elections Turnout at 26.2% by 1 PM
November 6 (BTA) - A total of 1,790,608 people voted in the Bulgarian presidential elections by 1 p.m. on Sunday, putting voter turnout by that hour at 26.2 per cent, the Central Election Commission (CEC) reported. Fewer people - 1,557,444 - voted in the concurrent national refer...
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First Free Trade Zone to Be Built in Bulgaria within 16+1 Initiative
November 6 (BTA) - The first free trade zone within the 16+1 initiative will be created in Bulgaria, it transpired from an agro-business forum, opened by Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vassil Groudev as part of the 14th international agricultural trade exhibition in Kinming...
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Central Election Commission Receives 76 Complaints
November 6 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC) has so far received 76 complaints relevant to Sunday's presidential elections and national referendum, CEC spokespersons Kamelia Neikova and Alexander Andreev said in the early afternoon on polling day.