National Movement for Stability and Progress (NDSV)

''We have to leave a mark after so many years of isolation'', Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha said in an EURACTIV interview on the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, quoted by BGNES. 

MEP and ex-journalist Nikolay Barekov's Bulgaria without Censorship has sealed a coalition agreement with Lider ("Leader") party, Barekov himself announced.

Lider, formally represented by chairman Kancho Filipov, is unofficially concentrated around energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has appointed former MP Metin Suleymanov from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) member of the Central Electoral Commission.

The lawmaker becomes part of CEC after Parliament approved on Tuesday an amendment to the recently-voted Election Code envisaging that the Commission be strengthened by one member, from 19 to 20.

Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will hold its first sitting at 1.30 pm on Friday.

At 12 noon, the new panel of the CEC will be presented to the media and NGOs, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).