Bulgaria

Bulgaria's centre-right Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, submitted his resignation to parliament on Monday, after a left-wing opposition candidate defeated his nominee in the presidential election.

An emergency vote in parliament on his decision to step down is expected on Tuesday.

Bulgarian President-elect Rumen Radev has gained support from the vast majority of UK- and US-based voters, official data shows.

With 94.77% of ballot protocols outside Bulgaria having been processed, Radev has won 52.04% of the overall expat vote, while his opponent Tsetska Tsacheva has received some 43.75%, the Central Election Committee (CEC) says.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and President-elect Rumen Radev are set to meet in Sofia on Monday, officials say.

Plevneliev is receiving Radev at the Presidency less than 24 hours after exit polls suggested the latter was overwhelmingly winning the presidential race and would become the next head of state.

Bulgaria's Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has dismissed claims of Parliament's budgetary committee head that the government intends on withdrawing the draft budget for next year.

In a statement, Goranov declares that the budget already filed with Parliament will not "fall hostage to the unprincipled political confrontation... [and] populism."

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has deposited his resignation and that of his government, officials say.

An emergency vote is expected in Parliament tomorrow on his move to step down.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said he will resign after the candidate of his GERB party on Sunday lost in the presidential elections.

The AFP agency said that Borisov, who has a black belt in karate, has thus performed "a self-inflicted knockout."

The election of Rumen Radev as Bulgaria's next President reveals he was the focus of the protest sentiments displayed in the first round, an expert has said.

Desislava Ivancheva has won nearly 65% of the votes in Mladost neighborhood of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, set to become its next mayor, official results show.

Rumen Radev is nearly 23% ahead of Tsetska Tsacheva in the race to become Bulgaria's next President, partial official results confirm.

With more than 99.33% of the vote counted, the socialist-backed candidate gets 59.35% support. This largely confirms exit poll data which on Sunday evening pointed to Radev as Bulgaria's President-elect.

President-elect Rumen Radev has largely benefited from a "groundswell of popular resentment against the GERB-led coalition" in Bulgaria, the Financial Times has said, citing analysts.