Tsetska Tsacheva

Uncertainty looms about the number of unknown candidates that are to register with Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission to run in the presidential elections on November 06.

Novinite is publishing a short profile of Tsetska Tsacheva, the Bulgarian Parliament Speaker who was nominated to run the presidential elections on November 06 by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva will be the main ruling party's candidate in the presidential elections, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said.

Vice Admiral Plamen Manushev will be the GERB's candidate for Vice President.

Tsacheva, the first female Parliament Speaker of Bulgaria, will also become the first female President if elected.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is expected to announce his party's candidates for president and vice president on Sunday.

The event will follow months of silence on behalf of his party, conservative GERB, which has repeatedly declined to reveal the names.

The probability of GERB nominating for president the chairman of Parliament Tsetska Tsacheva, the mayors of Sofia and Burgas - Yordanka Fandakova and Dimitar Nikolov, and Vice Premier Tomislav Donchev is 99%, said on bTV the chairman of the pre-election headquarters of GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said he is "not commenting" on information that Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva is the nomination of his GERB party for the presidential elections.

Earlier, the names of Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Deputy PM Tomislav Donchev, Burgas Mayor Dimitar Nikolov, and Tsacheva herself have been repeatedly mentioned as possible nominees.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella is set to arrive in Bulgaria on Tuesday at the invitation of his counterpart Rosen Plevneliev, the latter's press office has said.

The migration crisis, the state of the EU following the Brexit referendum in Britain, security and terrorism will be high on the agenda of their talks.

Bulgaria is celebrating on Tuesday its Unification Day, with festive events expected throughout the country but mostly in Plovdiv, the second-biggest city.

The Bulgarian parliament reversed its decision on one of the amendments to the Electoral Code it had adopted last week, which stipulated that referendums and elections should not be held simultaneously.

Remote online voting will have its first experimental introduction starting 2018, Bulgarian lawmakers decided on Wednesday.