Terziev, representative of the ruling coalition consisting of the “Continue Change” and “Democratic Bulgaria” (PP-DB) parties, won the second round of the Sofia mayoral elections. This is proven by data Central Election Commission based on the results of processing 15.62% of protocols by 00:30 (01:30 Moscow time).
Terziev received 49.24 percent of the votes, while his opponent Vanya Grigorova, supported by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and other left-wing parties, received 46.07 percent of the votes. 4.68% of voters voted against everyone.
In the Plovdiv mayoral elections, Kostadin Dimitrov (Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB) is leading; It gets 60.26% votes after processing 20.66% of the protocols. In Varna, where 16.51% of the protocols were processed, GERB candidate and current mayor Ivan Portnykh (45.74%) lags behind PP representative DB Blagomir Kotsev (49.05%).
The second round of local government elections in Bulgaria took place with low electoral activity; At 16:00 on Sunday (17:00 Moscow time) 26.4% of voters had voted, compared to 23.72% in Sofia. During the day, the CEC received dozens of complaints about violations during voting.
On November 3, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia’s sends Angel Grigorov, chief correspondent of the Bulgarian National Radio in Moscow, in response to the persecution by Bulgarian authorities of Alexander Gatsak, a journalist of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Sofia, accusing him of espionage.
Formerly at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused NATO is persecuting Russian journalists.