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Bulgarians vote for the sixth time in three years to elect the 240 members of the parliament.
2024-06-9

Bulgarians head to the polls to elect the 240 members of the parliament. Exit polls show former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's party GERB narrowly defeating former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov's party We Continue the Change by 0.2%.
2023-04-2

Exit polls do not show a clear winner, with newly-formed populist party There Is Such a People narrowly beating out GERB, the party of previous Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, by 0.2 percentage points.
2021-07-11

Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borissov says that GERB, his party, will not ratify the convention due to lack of support from political parties. The treaty was designed by the Council of Europe to combat domestic violence and violence against women but critics say its language is vague, it could encourage youth to identify as transgender or third gender and it could lead to same-sex marriage in Bulgaria.
2018-02-15

Official results of yesterday's election are released today. An exit poll showed the centre-right GERB winning the most votes.
2017-03-27

Bulgarians vote to elect a new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boyko Borissov. Opinion polls predict a close contest between Borissov's centre-right GERB and the Socialist Party.
2017-03-26

Bulgarians head to the polls in a presidential runoff between BSP backed Rumen Radev, of the socialist opposition, and Tsetska Tsacheva, Chairwoman of the National Assembly, from incumbent prime-minister Boyko Borisov's conservative GERB. Exit polls by Alpha Research and Gallup International show Radev with about 58 percent of the vote with Tsacheva getting around 35 percent.
2016-11-13

Bulgarians vote in a snap election, following the resignation of a Socialist-led government in July; the number of parties in the National Assembly grows from four to eight, and the centre-right GERB becomes the biggest party but falls short of an overall majority. Voter turnout is just about 50%, lower than at any time since the establishment of democratic rule in 1989.
2014-10-5