Boyko Borisov

National Ombudsman Maya Manolova has said she sides with Bulgarian citizens abroad disgruntled with Electoral Code amendments preventing them from exercising their right to vote.

United States Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a visit to Bulgaria's capital Sofia on Friday and Saturday.

Blinken will hold a conversation with Bulgaria's top diplomat Daniel Mitov and will also be received by President Rosen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has said.

Experts who will have to analyze the work of the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office are set to arrive at the end of May, the Justice Ministry says.

Initially the date of arrival was in the beginning of April but failure to coordinate schedules resulted in a postponement for May 30, Dnevnik.bg quotes the ministry as saying in a reply to questions from the news website.

Controversial lawmaker and alleged media mogul Delyan Peevski has said he has renounced three of his offshore companies.

In a declaration under conflict of interest law submitted last week, he states he has sold Redwood Capital Ltd., Uno de senso Group Ltd., and Richi International Ltd.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov slightly lifted the veil on his party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections which are scheduled to take place in the autumn.

However rather than naming any of the possible candidates, Borisov pointed to those who will not run in the elections.

The governing coalition of Bulgaria must prepare for a challenge to the recent introduction of compulsory voting from the Constitutional Court, Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva said on Tuesday.

Bulgarian lawmakers changed late on Tuesday an earlier proposal under which voters who did not take part in an election would be deleted from electoral rolls.

The new amendments, adopted in a second reading, stipulate that a voter will be "deregistered" if they do not cast a ballot in two consecutive elections of the same kind (be they general or presidential).

The leader of parties that form Bulgaria's government have backtracked on a set of amendments introduced to electoral legislation in the past days.

Their decision has been announced after a meeting with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Parliament, hours before the beginning of a final vote on the Electoral Code.

Crunch talks have begun among Bulgaria's political leaders looking into options to amend draft electoral legislation following a public outcry both home and abroad.

GERB are inclined to revise the controversial changes to the Electoral Code that have provoked public discontent, the leader of the dominant party in Bulgaria's governing coalition has said.