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Bulgarian socialists win elections, but need coalition partners

Bulgarian socialists won the parliamentary elections in the country on Saturday (25 June), but did not obtain enough votes to win an absoulte majority and form a government, Bulgarian media report.

The socialist party- Coalition for Bulgaria- won 31.17 percent of the votes, according to results published in the Bulgarian press on Monday (27 June).

The centrist National Movement Simeon II, led by Simeon Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, only obtained 19.91 percent.

The mostly ethnic-Turkis...

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