Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)

15 political parties, 6 coalitions and 6 independent candidates submitted documents for participating in the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria on May 25.

The deadline for the registration of lists of candidates with the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expired late on Tuesday, according to reports of Sega daily.

The journalist-turned-politician Nikolay Barekov, who leads the Bulgaria without Censorship party, announced "one more lawmaker" was to quit center-right GERB on Tuesday.

The Bulgarian Parliament voted against President Plevneliev's veto on amendments to the Audit Office Act.

Everything will be done to make Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) reality, Bulgarian ruling party's lawmaker Yavor Kuyumdzhiev said on Tuesday.

The legal committee at Bulgaria's Parliament approved the Movement of Rights and Freedoms (DPS)'s proposal for changes to May 25's EU Elections ballot.

Under the DPS-initiated legislation, numbers corresponding to preferential candidates will be circled and not written in a square, as the Election Code stipulates.

Bulgaria's Commission for Consumer Protection is to be converted into an executive agency under the umbrella of the Ministry of Economy and Energy.

The reform is part of a set of amendments to the Consumer Protection Act which were approved Wednesday by the parliamentary economic committee.

Bulgaria's lawmakers have conclusively adopted the amendments to the Consumer Credit Act which will come into effect three months after their promulgation in the State Gazette.

The regulations will apply only to mortgage agreements signed after the law comes into force, except for the fees, compensations and penalties which can be renegotiated, Bulgarian Dnevnik informs.

If the elections for European Parliament were today, four Bulgarian parties would pass the 5.9% threshold, shows a survey of the Mediana agency. 

Nikolay Barekov, a former journalist and TV host, announced he would lead the EU Elections list of a coalition forged by his Bulgaria without Censorship (BWC) party.

The leaders of nationalist VMRO-BND, Agrarian People's Union and Gergiovden Movement, the other three parties within the coalition, will rank immediately after him in the list, Dnevnik.bg has reported.

EC President Jose Barroso has told Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Chair of Bulgarian party GERB, that the South Stream gas pipeline has not been given priority treatment in Europe.