Sofia, Bulgaria News

The election of a new mayor of Sofia, to replace Boiko Borissov who is girding up to become Prime Minister of Bulgaria, will take place on October 24 2009, the Municipal Election Commission said on July 8 2009.

Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Alexander Filipov was arrested Monday on charges of corruption and rigging elections, a prosecutor said.

EXASPERATED voters boot out a bad government and install an unknown one. That is the Bulgarian election in a nutshell, after the defeat of the Socialists by a centre-right populist party led by Boyko Borisov, a cigar-chomping ex-bodyguard. Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, known by its Bulgarian acronym of GERB, took 39.7% of the vote ...

At a starting price of 302 euro a sq m, a 97 sq m flat in the Hipodruma borough of Sofia, is offered for 29 246 euro, Investor.bg has reported.

UK reggae artists Percy Dread, mostly known as the frontman of Natrual Ites, and Demolition Man are to perform at the 6th Big Big Summer Reggae Party on July 10 2009.

By Anna Mudeva Ever since communism collapsed 20 years ago, Bulgarians have been waiting for a saviour to rid the country of its plagues: corruption, nepotism and impunity for the powerful.

SOFIA: The centre-right GERB party, which won Bulgarian elections, announced administrative reforms and cutbacks yesterday to stabilise the budget as the country's economic crisis threatened to worsen.

The European Investment Bank had approved a loan for the construction of five out of six overhead passes planned in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov said on July 1 2009.

SOFIA: International observers refused to give a 'clean bill of health' to the general election in Bulgaria at the weekend, which saw the centre-right opposition roundly defeat the ruling Socialists.

Exit poll says Bulgaria's right-wing opposition GERB party has won the parliamentary election.

SOFIA: The new centre-right GERB party of Sofia mayor Boyko Borisov won Bulgaria's general elections with 39.7 percent support, official results showed on Monday, with 99.88 percent of the ballots counted.

Boyko Borissov, the populist mayor of Sofia, claimed victory last night in Bulgaria's general election.

The center-right opposition party led by Sofia Mayor Boiko Borisov has claimed victory over the ruling Socialists in Bulgaria's parliamentary election Sunday.

The impoverished population of this sleepy Bulgarian town faced a bizarre choice of candidates in Sunday's general election - suspected local crime bosses who are also town benefactors.

Simeon Saxe-Coburg, leader of the National Movement for Stability and Progress, , said Bulgaria must continue to integrate into the European Union.

Bulgarians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election they hope will restart reforms to combat endemic corruption and heal an economy severely damaged by the global crisis.

Zlatko Baretata was left in prison despite his immunity as an advocate of an MP candidate.

Friends and relatives of the murdered Bulgarian student Stoyan Baltov have asked the Sofia City Court to give a life sentence to those found guilty of his murder.

Sofia suffers from a shortage of parking lots, which explains why fares here are higher than in other European capitals, such as Madrid and Berlin.

The Supreme Judicial Council elected Georgi Kolev as the new chairperson of Sofia City Court on July 1 2009.