Central Election Commission

Four more parties are officially entering the presidential campaign on Tuesday.

The first to register with the Central Election Commission was DOST. According to its leader Lutvi Mestan, if GERB's leader Boyko Borisov is not nominated for president, this means that he is getting ready for a third mandate as PM.

The Central Election commission has announced the countries where election sections will be opened in the diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The Central Election Commission will pay BGN 179,500, VAT excluded, for two explanatory campaigns before the presidential elections and the referendum on November 6.

Vacant places in section commissions abroad will be displayed on the webpage of the Central Election Commission (CEC) and they can be filled from the Bulgarian Diaspora in the different countries, announced the speaker of CEC.

Albania's political scene is expected to be tense for months to come as around 30,000 officials complete questionnaires concerning any past criminal convictions and the date is verified.

The situation is already heated after the Mayor of Kavaja, Elvis Rroshi, from the ruling Socialist Party, left office on Tuesday as a result of new facts emerging about his past.

BELGRADE - Vassily Likhachov, a member of Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) who led a CEC observation delegation at Sunday's early parliamentary election in Serbia has said that Russia should adopt a special position regarding Serbia as the West were trying to keep the country far away from Russia.
   

After sitting for more than fourteen hours on Tuesday, members of Bulgaria's parliamentary legal affairs committee adopted at second reading a set of amendments to the Electoral Code.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party won a landslide in the March 20 snap parliamentary election by capturing 82 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results announced on March 21. 

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev warned that Russia is planning to wage a "hybrid warfare" campaign aimed at destabilising the whole of Europe.

Plevneliev called on the EU and NATO to do more to counter the rising threat of Russian aggression.

Azerbaijan's ruling party won an outright majority Nov. 1 in parliamentary polls that were boycotted by the mainstream opposition, near-complete results showed, cementing strongman President Ilham Aliyev's grip on power.