Government of Bulgaria

With some 97.2 per cent of the votes counted, the centre-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, was holding a comfortable lead over its main opponents on Monday after the parliamentary elections the previous day.

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Right-wing party wins in Bulgarian election

SOFIA -- Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, who leads a right-wing party, said he is willing to take on any risk to form a government.

Borisov's statement came after the first results of Sunday's parliamentary election showed that his GERB party had claimed victory.

Exit polls in early general elections held amid political turmoil in the crisis-hit EU state indicate a comfortable lead for the centre-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB.

A total of eight parties and coalitions have won enough votes in Sunday's snap general elections to enter Bulgaria's next Parliament, an exit poll showed. 

According to the survey conducted by Sova Harris polling agency, centre-right GERB party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has won 33.6% of the vote.

GERB is leading in October 5's early elections in Bulgaria with 35 percent, according Exacta Research Group, the agency that grew out of the national pollster closed down by the previous legislature.

Eight Bulgarian political parties have won enough votes in Sunday's snap elections to enter Parliament, an exit poll by Gallup International showed.

Center-right GERB party has won most votes in Bulgaria's early parliamеntary elections on Sunday but fell short of an overall majority.

According to an exit poll conducted by Alpha Research, a total of seven parties have passed the four-percent threshold to enter Bulgaria's 43rd National Assembly.

Austrian daily newspaper Kurier has published an article devoted to the upcoming early elections in Bulgaria, arguing that former Prime Minister and GERB leader Boyko Borisov is on a winning course.

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The EU is likely to lessen sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the limiting of hostilities in Ukraine, former Bulgarian government official Simeon Djankov argued Thursday.

"If we reach a position of frozen conflict, then we can discuss how we and the Russians can work together," Russian news agency RIA quoted him as saying.

Boyko Borisov, leader of center-right party GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria), has insisted that the party will not try to form a coalition government or participate in such a format.

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