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The distance between the candidates for president of GERB and BSP is closing. 31.4 % of voters would vote for Tsetska Tsacheva, while 27% would vote for Rumen Radev, showed a nationally representative survey of Mediana agency.

Bulgarian main ruling party's candidate Tsetska Tsacheva is set to lose to any of the two predicted frontrunners, a new survey has suggested.

With less than a week to go before the presidential elections in Bulgaria on November 6, the likely winner is proving difficult to predict.

Latest polls have shown that the successor to President Rossen Plevneliev, backed in 2011 by Bulgaria's governing centre-right GERB party, will not be elected in the first round on Sunday.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev has kept his options to run for a second term in office.

Plevneliev is not taking part in next week's presidential elections, but has not explicitly ruled himself out for a subsequent election. His term expires in January.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has denied claims of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov that he was advised by so-called "Capital" circle to include him in the cabinet.

With 108 votes "for", 35 "against" and 18 abstentions, parliamentary deputies adopted at first reading the amendments to the Electoral Code submitted by Krasimir Velchev, Danail Kirilov and other GERB deputies. The same was proposed by Nayden Zelenogorski and deputies from the Reformist Bloc.

"Plamen Oresharski is not DPS' real candidate but merely a step in the political kazachok in the direction of Rumen Radev. Unless a different deal is reached. Because the purpose of the colleagues from DPS is to find a way to power. There is no way for them through the right-wing," stated Dost's leader Lutvi Mestan on Nova TV.

DOST head Lyutvi Mestan has announced his party will back the candidacy of Tsetska Tsacheva, the nominee of Bulgaria's main ruling party, in the presidential elections.

Mestan's announcement comes to no surprise, as he earlier indicated the Democrats for Responsibility, Solidarity and Tolerance (DOST) may endorse GERB's candidate unless he ran himself as leader of the party.

The restriction for the opening of up to 35 electoral sections will be abolished for EU member-states but it will remain valid for the rest of the world, decided deputies in the legal commission who discussed at first reading the 12 draft bills for amendments to the Electoral Code.

17 days remain until the presidential elections.

A survey of Sova Harris agency has predicted a run-off between the candidate of GERB - Tsetska Tsacheva and BSP's candidate - General Rumen Radev.