Bulgaria

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told an April 7 Cabinet meeting of the scenarios he envisages for the possible formation of a new government in Bulgaria.

The big winner of the elections 2021 - Slavi Trifonov's party "There is such a people", which at the first appearance on the political scene has garnered 600,000 votes, will act resolutely. Trifonov has already decided to boycott attempts by the new parliament to form a government.

On Monday, a press conference by international observers of Bulgaria's 45th National Assembly elections was held at the Hilton Hotel in the capital.

Traditionally, with the exit polls in, this should be an article headlined "Bulgaria's April 2021 parliamentary elections: Winners and losers".

But, quite obviously, going by the headline above, it is not.

"There Is Such a People", Democratic Bulgaria (DB) and Conservative Alliance of the Right (KOD) have the highest voter support among Bulgarians abroad, according to interim data as of 06:30 am, with 80.86% processed protocols. GERB and BSP are in fourth and sixth place respectively.

"There Is Such a People" gets 28.46% of the votes.

Democratic Bulgaria is with 16.71%

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's party won Sunday's general elections, but thorny ties with his political rivals complicated his path to a fourth term as leader of the European Union's poorest and most corrupt member.

Parallel vote count at 100% by Alpha Research polling agency shows that Boyko Borrisov's GERB-Union of Democratic Forces coalition has won 25.2% share of the votes in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections, held on April 4.

The party of the TV presenter, Slavi Trifonov "There is Such a People" is second with 17.1%.

"I voted for a free, just and prosperous Bulgaria," said President Rumen Radev after casting his ballot at 11 a.m. at the Sofia Henry Ford Vocational Training School for Transport and Energy.

I believe that although with difficulty, the Bulgarians hold their fate in their own hands.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov exercised his right of vote in his hometown of Bankya at 78 secondary school Hristo Smirnenski.

He voted with a paper ballot.

The Russian embassy in Sofia defended the Bulgarian government over criticism from US over corruption and lack of media freedom, as if the EU and NATO country was Russia's backyard.