Rosen Plevneliev

Center-right party GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) is in favor of holding a referendum on compulsory voting alongside the early general elections.

GERB will support amendments in Constitution that will introduce mandatory voting, the opposition party's Deputy Chair Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced.

He added that if such a proposal fails to gather majority, the center-right party would also back a referendum on the same issue which would allow citizens to have a say on the issue, as Dnevnik.bg reports.

Bulgaria's Government must resign immediately, said the leader of the opposition party GERB Boyko Borisov at an extraordinary press conference on Thursday. 

It was called in after earlier on Thursday the leader of the government coalition partner Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Lyutvi Mestan, said the government should resign and early elections be held by the end of 2014.

Bulgarian Parliament Committee investigating into President Rosen Plevneliev's contacts with representatives of EDCs is to meet for the first time Thursday.

The temporary inquiry committee was established on May 8 upon a motion by the far-right Ataka and drew support from the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).

Bulgaria must confirm its commitment towards NATO for increasing defense spending to 2% of its GDP, said President Rosen Plevneliev.

Plevneliev took part in the meeting of Central and Eastern European leaders and US President Barack Obama in Warsaw, as part of the 25th anniversary of Poland's first post-Communist democratic elections.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev appointed Lt Gen Angel Antonov head of the National Security Service (NSO) on Monday.

By a decree Plevneliev dismissed Todor Kodzheykov and his deputy Kalin Ivanov from office, the president's press service has reported.

The head of state also appointed Col Yulian Haralampiev and Col Krasimir Stanchev to be Antonov's deputies.

Bulgarians reaffirmed their pro-EU orientation President in an unambiguous manner at the European Parliament elections, according to President Rosen Plevneliev.

In a Friday statement on the EP elections on May 25, Plevneliev suggested that the results had shown yet again that national division only existed in the minds of separate political leaders.

President Rosen Plevneliev called on the government to explain whether it intends to comply with EU legislation on the South Stream gas pipeline.

Plevneliev cast doubt on the sincerity of the promises Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski made to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at their meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev congratulated in a phone conversation  the newly-elected Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, said the President's press office. 

According to 99.03% of the processed ballots, Poroshenko wins the May 25 presidential elections with 54.7% of the votes. 

Nikolay Barekov, leader of the Bulgaria without Censorship party, has said that the formation supports a no-confidence motion against the socialist-led government.

According to preliminary results of the European Parliament elections, the Bulgaria without Censorship party of the former TV host will send two MEPs to the European Parliament.