Elections

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Saturday that a proposal from the Greek government for a referendum on austerity demands should not be dismissed out of hand, though it was vital that voters had a clear deal on which to vote.

Democracy in Bulgaria has been in decline for the past 8 years, according to an annual report of US-based NGO Freedom House.

Bulgaria's democracy score registers a minor change from 3.25 to 3.29 on an annual basis, according to the Nations in Transit 2015 report of Freedom House.

Bulgaria is ranked as a semi-consolidated democracy.

The latest opinion poll of Gallup International, which was released on Tuesday, shows that half of all Bulgarians of age of majority would vote in favour of compulsory voting, while slightly below one third would vote against its introduction.

'We have created awareness about election security.

Germany's Ambassador to Romania, Werner Hans Lauk, said on Thursday that the rule of law doesn't exist without the all-encompassing equality of the citizens before the law, and that without quality journalism, real democracy is not possible.

I wrote about the election security last week. I did my duty as a volunteer for Oy ve Otesi (Vote and Beyond), took a signed copy of the official result of my ballot box and handed it over to the organization.

Even if we hold the most beautiful elections in the whole world, even if we achieve the best democracy; and even if we receive a magnificent outcome that makes everybody happy, I am still in a different place at the polling station. 

The reason is that when we look at these photographs, all of us are getting smaller, we are shrinking. We are trapped in a bottleneck? 

A headman in Batman's Yolveren village was all by lonesome on June 7, as he was the only person to cast a vote at his polling booth because the locality's other 16 registered voters all now live in Germany.

Village head Mehmet Alcu, 76, had to cast his vote in a neighboring village as a ballot box could not be set up in Yolveren, a Yazidi village, due to security concerns. 

A total of 53,741,838 voters in Turkey go to the ballot boxes on June 7, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to cast their votes, which will reshuffle the 550-seat parliament and also define the new government for the next four years.  

A total of 53,741,838 voters in Turkey go to the ballot boxes on June 7, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to cast their votes, which will reshuffle the 550-seat parliament and also define the new government for the next four years.