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Every fourth voter in the European elections in Bulgaria used their right of preferential vote, shows data of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC). 

This was the first time the Bulgarians voters had the actual right to select a candidate who is further down on the party or coalition ballot list.  

An assault rifle believed to have been used in an attack on the headquarters of the junior coalition partner PASOK a few hours before voting began in European Parliament elections on Sunday may have jammed, causing less damage than the perpetrators had intended, police sources indicated on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's trade unions and employers failed to reach an agreement on the amount of the minimum wage at Monday’s meeting of the working group on amendments to the Labor Law, Vice President of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (SSSS) Zoran Mihajlovic told Tanjug.

In a surprising turn, Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), may lose the MEP seat to 28-year-old Momchil Nekov, who is 15th on the election list.

Nekov is believed to have received a huge portion of the preference vote in the European Parliament elections on Sunday due to a misunderstanding.

The preliminary data of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) from 75% of the votes of the Bulgarians living abroad, shows that the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party is fifth. 

By Nikos Konstandaras

The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Sergey Stanishev admitted that he was unsatisfied with the election results.

BSP comes second in the European elections according to the preliminary results, lagging around 10% behind the leading GERB party.

The Greek police’s counterterrorism squad was investigating an apparent attack on the headquarters of PASOK, the junior coalition partner, on Sunday after two bullets were found to have pierced its windows.

Ruling BSP picked the wrong political opponent and targeted the rival ABV of former President Georgi Parvanov instead of Bulgaria without Censorship, which attracted its voters.

These were the comments made by political scientist Dimitar Avramov for Novinite.bg following the announcement of exit poll results from Bulgaria's European elections.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday gave the clearest indication yet regarding what kind of result in Sunday’s European Parliament vote would, in his view, give the opposition party the impetus to call for snap elections.