European elections 2009
We have chosen the elections for European parliament for one of the main issues for euinside because they show very clearly the current processes in the European Union member states and the Union itself.
| © Adelina Marini | www.euinside.euThe Blue coalition will sue Ivaylo Kalfin and Sergey Stanishev for slander
The Blue coalition is outraged from the advertisement of Coalition for Bulgaria (A coalition of socialist parties) in which they claim that the government of Ivan Kostov (1997-2001) had reduced the pensions. In response, Yordan Hristoskov who was until recently president of the National social s ...What can make you vote? Inquiry
For the last couple of weeks the fight on political level for the next government of Bulgaria is getting more and more violent. Now the debate is no longer about the buying of votes but real obstacles are being created for some parties or coalitions to take part in the elections. In such an atmo ...The president should appoint new members of the CEC, asked the Blue coalition
The co-founders of the Blue coalition Martin Dimitrov and Ivan Kostov met with the president Gheorghi Parvanov to give him a note for the violations the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) has done around the attempts of the Blue coalition to register for the European and National elections. Besid ...The president to intefere, requested the Blue coalition
An urgent meeting with the president of the Republic requested the co-presidents of the Blue coalition Martin Dimitrov and Ivan Kostov in an open letter. In it they quote all violations of the Central Electoral Committee with regard to the registration of the UDF (United Democratic Forces) for t ...
| © Ladislav TsvetkovNext week we will vote, but for what?
A little more than 10 years ago an American woman asked me how do we, here in Bulgaria, elect our political representatives. Her questions were specific: How do you vote for someone you don't know? How do you elect someone without forcing him to take certain engagements to you? And last but not ...
| © euinsideThe Central Electoral Committee should register the Blue coalition
The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has rejected the ruling of the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) with which it refused to register the Blue coalition with the UDF (United democratic forces) in its structure. The court announced its decision yesterday. The SAC has made a thorough analysis ...Kostov took over the UDF from the inside, says Ahmed Dogan
A second Bulgarian party expresses an opinion for the problems in the right political space in Bulgaria. This is the DPS (Movement for rights and freedoms, which no longer wants to be recognised as Turkish ethnic party) and one of the rare interviews of its leader, again, for the "Trud" daily. I ...
| © euinsideKalfin: European elections are more important than the National vote
The European elections might appear more important than the National elections, says the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ivaylo Kalfin who will start his campaign tomorrow as a leader of the list of the socialists for MEPs. Kalfin added that the European elections are more important b ...The Dimplomatic corpus will visit Belogradchik
The deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ivaylo Kalfin will take the ambassadors and the heads of international organisations in Bulgaria in Belogradchik. This is the third time when Kalfin takes the diplomatic corpus in different places in Bulgaria. The initiative was a tradition before 1 ...Almost all parties presented their candidates for MEPs
Almost all parties and coalitions have presented their candidates for MEPs. The registered for participation in the European elections coalitions are 3: Coalition for Bulgaria (a coalition of socialists and social democrats), "Napred" coalition (in translation: napred=forward) which consists of ...Bulgaria's judicial system is flexible and has something for everybody
A lot of coincidence along the way of the UDF toward participation in the European elections. Only a day after the Central electoral committee rejected a great part of the signatures, filed by Plamen Radonov for the UDF's registration for the elections thus preventing the Blue coalition from par ...
| © SDSUDF filed a litigation in the Central electoral committee
The judicial knot around the registration of the UDF for the European elections is getting tighter now after the deputy president of the party Lyubov Panayotova and the democratically elected leader Martin Dimitrov filed a litigation in the Central electoral committee for the European elections ...
| © Red, zakonnost i spravedlivostAgents of BSP, DPS and the SS have eliminated the UDF
"Order, law and justice" is the only political party in Bulgaria for the moment that has dared to take an opinion regarding the internal problems of the UDF (The Union of the democratic forces). In a declaration today the party, led by Yane Yanev, former member of the United democratic forces (t ...
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