|
GERB won 39.8% in Bulgaria Elections |
|
|
Monday, 6 July 2009Bulgarians voted Sunday in parliamentary elections.
Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov's Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) won % 39.8 of the votes in Parliament elections. % 97 .2 of the votes were counted and turnout was % 60. Bulgarian Socialist Party, came second with % t7 .9, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Party (MRF- Supported mainly by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent) wonYo 14.2 of the votes.
Ultra-nationalist party won %o 9.4, the centre-right Blue Coalition won % 6.7 and The Order Law and Justice party won % 4.L8 of the votes.
The coalition of LIDER with New Time had 3.2 per cent and the National Movement for Stability and Progress, the third partner in the ruling coalition, had only three per cent, CEC data showed.
The leader of ultra-nationalist Ataka party Volen Siderov said "The most important outcome of Parliament elections in Bulgaria was that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms would no longer be in government".
Supporters of Ataka and Yane Yanev's Order Law and iustice party made protests at borders, against Turkish citizens with Bulgarian passports coming to vote for the parliamentary elections with busses.
Siderov said that the Turkish buses had been sponsored by Ankara.
Yane Yanev, leader of the Order Law and Justice party, blamed Turkey for "election tourism" .
Leader of the MRF party, Ahmet Dogan said "The results for the Movement for Rights and Freedoms were the best in 19 years".
There are also many election, irregularities were reported, Sandwiches wrapped in campaign advertisements, the buying of votes in exchange for cash and cases of voting with false documents.
Numerous case of vote trading have been spotted by the police officials and people have been arrested for trading votes.
United Kingdom ambassador in Bulgaria, said in an interviewwith Ihe Sofio Echo "The final report by Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe election monitors will make it possible to assess the extent of the problem of vote-buying, OSCE's interim report had noted vote-buying as a problem and one that would be monitored".
By Burhan Dogus Ayparlar (JTW)
|
Monday, 6 July 2009
Journal of Turkish Weekly
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MOST VISITED NEWS (DAILY) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
