Nikolay Barekov

Supporters of Ahmed Dogan, honorary chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), clashed with police outside his long-time residence in the Boyana area earlier today. Approximately 100 demonstrators attempted to breach the police cordon stationed at the entrance to the property.

The Supreme Administrative Court has instructed the Central Election Commission (CEC) to register the party of European deputy Nikolay Barekov for the upcoming snap elections on March 26 with the name he chooses himself.

Nikolay Barekov's Reload Bulgaria party will be unable to run with its new name as its leader demands, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has said.

The CEC's ruling comes less than a day after registration for the upcoming snap parliamentary vote ended.

Sofia City Court has registered the movement  "Prezaredi Balgaria" (Recharge Bulgaria) established by Nikolay Barekov.

The court ruled that all legal requirements have been adhered to, reported bgnews.bg

The Prosecutor's Office found no legal obstacles to initiating the case, both on grounds of requests submitted and evidence in writing.

A motley Bulgarian Parliament ended its last session on Thursday before noontime, adopting several pieces of legislation.

The 43rd National Assembly, which existed for just two years and three monhs, will be disbanded as of January 27, Friday.

GERB, the main party in Bulgaria's outgoing government, will ask some thousands of its members on the coalition policy it should pursue after the early election due this spring.

Emailed polls will require of more than 20 000 GERB members to have a say on which the party's "natural partners" are, according to daily 24 Chasa.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has acknowledged there has been a "problem" between him and the Vice President, Margarita Popova.

"We have not met in a year," he has added.

Regardless of tense relations, however, the two "managed to preserve the institution", he has argued, in an interview with NOVA TV station ten days before leaving office.

Just after abolishing his previous party, Bulgarian MEP Nikolay Barekov unveiled on Saturday a new political project, aimed at fighting corruption and changing the media landscape.

The sixth-biggest group in Bulgaria's Parliament dissolved itself on Friday after five of the MPs belonging to it submitted requests to leave it.

Previously, the lawmakers had threatened to quit unless a name dispute is settled.

Five Bulgarian lawmakers from the Bulgarian Democratic Center (BDC)'s parliamentary group are to submit their requests to leave it, one of the MPs has said.

BDC was set up by lawmakers who were previously part of a coalition led by MEP Nikolay Barekov and made it into Parliament within an alliance led by his Bulgaria without Censorship party.