Elections

"Just over 59% of voters voted by machine. That's about 1.477 million people, and just over 1.021 million voted with paper ballots." Diana Eftimova - chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Development of the Public Environment, who analyzed the results published in the protocols of the Regional Election Committees (RECs), stated this to the National Radio.

As four presidential candidates have been confirmed to run for the presidency, the political alliances have now intensified works to find a best formulation to increase the number of seats they will get in the parliament in the May 14 elections. The ultimate lists of potential members of parliament will need to be submitted to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) at the latest on April 9.

"Our result will go up (due to the return of the paper ballot), let me assure you of that."

The words of BSP leader Kornelia Ninova before bTV on March 28 - four days before the early parliamentary elections.

Among the parties and coalitions entering the 49th National Assembly, the electorates of the "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) coalition and the pro-Russian nationalist party "Vazrazhdane" have the highest educational status - respectively 57% and 53% of their voters have university degrees.

Contested battle for first and third place in the early parliamentary vote. The results of the coalitions PP-DB and GERB-SDS are with a difference within the statistical error, according to the results of the exit poll of the sociological agencies "Gallup" and "Trend" at 7:00 p.m., conducted and financed by order of NOVA.

For the fifth time in two years, Bulgarians are called to the polling stations to vote for a National Assembly, which, after a series of unsuccessful attempts, will finally produce a regular government and put an end to the political crisis in the country.

A law passed by the previous leftist-led government giving the vote to people whose 17th birthday falls within the calendar year of an election, a year earlier than previously, means that people as young as 16 years and 5 months will be eligible to cast ballots. It also means a larger than usual cohort of new voters.

Greece will hold a parliamentary election in May, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday, with the country gearing up for a vote which is unlikely to produce an outright winner immediately.

The conservative leader, whose term ends officially in July, said a national election will be held on May 21.

A total of 60,904,499 people will be able to vote at 190,736 ballot boxes in the country for the presidential and 28th term parliamentary elections slated for May 14.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) announced the number of voters who will cast their votes abroad and in Türkiye in the Official Gazette on March 24.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that ballot boxes will be established in 15 more countries in the elections to be held on May 14, YSK President Ahmet Yener has announced.

YSK decided to set up ballot boxes in 21 overseas representations in 15 countries, in which Turkish citizens did not cast vote in previous polls.