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The data showed that weakly-affiliated Democrats developed “warmer feelings towards Republican candidates”

In response to the allegations of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over faulty voters' information in the Turkish citizenship database system, MERNİS, provided to the Supreme Election Board (YSK), the Interior Ministry stated on Aug. 12 that the system functions properly.

Veernje novosti reports that it is quite realistic that Serbia will get a new executive power no later than the fourth week of August.

MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Vladimir Orlic was elected parliament speaker in an open ballot, with 154 votes in favor and 76 opposed, out of 230 MPs present.
"154 voted in favor, 76 opposed, while there were no abstentions," MP Vladeta Jankovi announced at 9:30 p.m. as the chairman of the constitutive session of the parliament.

"To work towards a more technocratic government with a governing horizon of January 1, 2024."

This is what "Democratic Bulgaria" (DB) co-chairman Hristo Ivanov suggested to bTV. He clarified yesterday in the parliament that if "Democratic Bulgaria" gets the third mandate, it will do everything possible to realize it.

In today's elections, the party of Slavi Trifonov "There Is Such a People" remains below the line of entering parliament. This is according to the latest representative study of "Alpha Research". It was conducted in the period June 25 - July 1, 2022, among 1017 adult citizens from all over the country, through a direct standardized interview with tablets.

"There is no need for any evidence that MPs are being bought", Desislava Atanasova from GERB told BNT. "A government and its survival to be a matter of dealings in parliament seems to me the height of ugliness that can happen in political life", she said and urged "We Continue the Change" (WCC) "amateurs, time to go".

"We have reached an agreement on the government's priorities". This was stated by Asen Vassilev, the proposed candidate for prime minister of "We Continue the Change", after the talks with the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

"Our condition for negotiating with 'We Continue the Change' was that Kiril Petkov should not be a candidate for prime minister. This condition is met. We will talk to WCC about forming a government". This was said by BSP leader Kornelia Ninova after it became clear that WCC was proposing Asen Vassilev for Prime Minister.

First results suggest an ethnic Albanian coalition has secured a seat in Serbia's parliament, ending a marathon battle that began with the April Serbian general elections.