Sun, Nov 22 2009
FACE TO FACE: The 2009 election campaign finds them as foes, but the past has seen Boiko Borissov and Sergei Stanishev on occasion having to work together in their respective roles as Sofia mayor and Prime Minister, as seen in these photographs from 2005 and 2006.
Photo: Асен Тонев
FACE TO FACE: The 2009 election campaign finds them as foes, but the past has seen Boiko Borissov and Sergei Stanishev on occasion having to work together in their respective roles as Sofia mayor and Prime Minister, as seen in these photographs from 2005 and 2006.
Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva
FACE TO FACE: The 2009 election campaign finds them as foes, but the past has seen Boiko Borissov and Sergei Stanishev on occasion having to work together in their respective roles as Sofia mayor and Prime Minister, as seen in these photographs from 2005 and 2006.
Photo: Assen Tonev
Borissov’s GERB holds firm lead over Stanishev’s socialist Coalition for Bulgaria, according to a survey published on June 30 2009.
Sergei Stanishev’s Bulgarian Socialist Party would get 16 per cent if elections were held today, MBMD survey says.
Opinion agencies, in separate surveys, say that Boiko Borissov’s GERB will get from 26 to 30 per cent of the vote.
Borissov recommends that Bulgaria negotiate a loan from the IMF as a safeguard.
A picture emerges of the voter likely to support Borissov’s party in Bulgaria’s July 5 elections, while speculation on possible coalitions continues apace.
The Financial Times delivers a thumbnail portrait of the Sofia mayor, whom it describes as the favourite to win July's general election.
'I have no sick ambition to be Prime Minister,' Borissov says, after European Parliament results confirm ascendancy of his party ahead of July 2009 national parliamentary elections.
Current results should not be extrapolated to national elections, Bulgaria needs a stable, capable government fast, Stanishev said.
The European Commission is taking Bulgaria to court for delays in providing Sofia with adequate waste disposal facilities.
James Warlick is the spouse of Mary Warlick, director of the office of Russian affairs at the US state department, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to Serbia
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Acting on allegations by Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov, prosecutors and Government officials are to probe deals by which Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan acquired various properties.
Prosecutors allege that a deal agreed by the former defence minister caused losses of 12.9 million leva.