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Seventh vote, eight* parties, little chance of a stable gov’t
The 27 October early national election produced few surprises and the most fragmented parliament in Bulgarian history, but is unlikely to herald a stable outcome

No gov’t with last mandate triggers seventh election in October
It is still uncertain whether President Radev will make an attempt to replace Dimitar Glavchev as PM

Where did Velichie come from and where are they headed?
The new protest party rode on the wave of social media and sounds even more extreme than Vazrazhdane - can it be tamed?

Ursula von der Leyen in Plovdiv, or "In Bulgaria, EPP is GERB"
The leading candidate of the largest European party visited Boyko Borissov at a GERB election event in Plovdiv

On the road to Brussels: Who’s who in the parties’ MEP lists?
GERB and MRF bet on familiar faces, WCC pushes its nominees ahead of their partners from DB, while Vazrazhdane bets on a pro-Kremlin radio host

The week: Who’s running the country?
Who is really in charge? Elections lurk on every corner and a pharmaceutical boom

The week: How hard is it to buy trains?
The train won't be coming, The free electricity market neither, And the new Constitution is a mess

How GERB built Putin a pipeline, part 2: the laundering road of 3 billion leva through an Arab company
Turkstream used offshore companies and the financial capacity of Gazprombank

How GERB built Putin a pipeline, part I: the Roadmap to circumvent the law (and Ukraine)
A new data leak exposes how the Borissov-3 gov’t facilitated the construction of the TurkStream pipeline across Bulgaria against the country’s own interests and EU procurement rules

The week: What a Big Mac can tell us about the future of Sofia
Sofia gets really expensive, Peevski gets a post, and Real Estate keeps booming