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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

2017 Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections Sunday March 26,2017

2017 Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections were held in Bulgaria on Sunday March 26,2017. They had originally been scheduled for 2018 at the end of the four-year term of the National Assembly

However, following the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the failure of Bulgarian parties to form a government, early elections were called

Borisov resigned following the defeat of Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of his GERB party, in the November 2016 presidential elections

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov won early elections in Bulgaria for the third time in five years, setting his Gerb party on course to form a center-right coalition and maintain the Black Sea nation’s pro-European path.

With almost all votes counted, Gerb had 33 percent, while the more pro-Russian Socialists, successor to the Communist Party, had 27 percent, the Central Electoral Commission said Monday in Sofia, the capital. The third-placed United Patriots, a nationalist group that’s the most likely partner for an alliance with Gerb, got 9.1 percent

Bulgaria, a European Union and NATO member of 7.2 million people, is looking to end the political upheaval that’s brought a spate of elections and restrained the economy. While Gerb and the Socialists campaigned to revive business ties with Russia, Borissov didn’t join his rival’s calls to veto the bloc’s sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s government. The former bodyguard is unlikely to deviate much from his past foreign-policy or economic direction.

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