European Parliament election

Conservative GERB party of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has mustered around 34.5% of the vote nationally, in the national election held on Sunday, a Gallup exit poll shows.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the main opposition force, comes second with 17.2% of ballots, followed by the liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party, at 14.6%

An opinion poll shows the main opposition party 10 percent ahead of the main ruling party, and all other parties except the Hungarian ethnics' below the electoral threshold.

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PSD [The Social Democratic Party] is like the phoenix bird, every time there appear some who are impatient to be dancing on its grave, it rebirths out of its own ashes, the chairman of the party, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, on Saturday stated, on the occasion of the party's National Council meeting.

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Two lawmakers of Bulgaria without Censorship, the party of MEP Nikolay Barekov in Bulgaria's Parliament, have left his entity.

Svetlin Tanchev and Georgi Kovachev, the former having been one of Barekov's most important MPs, have chosen to quit Bulgaria without Censorship, stating this in an open letter.

Prime minister and presidential candidate Victor Ponta called his opponent Klaus Iohannis 'a thing'; Liberal Ludovic Orban thinks this was an unacceptable offense.

Election results have taught the BSP not to backtrack on a number of issues, MEP and key party member Iliana Iotova has said.

She has described Sunday's vote as a massive "nationalist backlash".

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is trailing far behind conservative GERB, according to most exit polls just minutes after first exit poll results were made public.

Gheorghe Funar, running for president as an independent candidate, accused the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) - both in the ruling coalition - of having a secret pact.

A political party called Nova Bulgaria ("New Bulgaria") removed the names of two MP candidates from its list for the October 5 early elections.

The organization sent a letter to public broadcaster BNR just a day after the Files Commission published online a list of candidates from all parties that were State Security (DS) agents during the Soviet-bloc era.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta stated on Thursday, while on a visit to Vrancea County to check the current stage of construction works on the DN2D national road, that the fact Romania was given the portfolio of European Commissioner for Regional Policy represents a huge advantage for the country.

PDL chairman Vasile Blaga has stated on Saturday at the Parliament Palace that the approval for the merger between the Democrat Liberal Party (PDL) and the National Liberal Party (PNL) is not the restoration of the Truth and Justice Alliance, of the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) or of the Social Liberal Union (USL), but the signing of the birth certificate of the largest ce