Pursuant to 100 per cent processed tally sheets from the November 3 local election run-offs by the Central Election Commission (CEC), the ruling GERB party wins nine regional capitals, the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), four, and coalitions and independent runners win five. Run-off elections were held in 18 regional capitals, including the capital Sofia.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov conferred with Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek in Sofia on Tuesday, the government information service said.

Today, 27 October, over 6.2 million Bulgarian citizens will be able to exercise their right to vote at country's local elections. According to the latest data, the total number of candidates for mayors and municipal councilors is close to 36,300, with elections being held in 265 municipalities in Bulgaria.

After a hearing that lasted over 10 hours Bulgaria's top judicial body, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), elected last Thursday Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, the sole candidate, for the next chief prosecutor with a mandate of seven years. He got the votes of 20 of the SJC members, with only four opposing his nomination. The decision will be presented immediately to the attention of President Rumen Radev for approval.

Meeting with US Ambassador Herro Mustafa on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said Bulgaria and the US are allies and strategic partners. The two countries have established a steady political dialogue at all levels, the government information service said.

The new Ambassador of the United States to Bulgaria H.E. Herro Mustafa and her family have arrived in Sofia. She is a career diplomat born in 1973 in Iraq to a Kurdish family. She spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp. In 1976 her family was granted right of asylum in the US. H.E. Mustafa has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Princeton University. She is fluent in nine languages, including Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Farsi.

"We appreciate the significance of the relations of traditional friendship and mutually advantageous cooperation between Bulgaria and Cambodia," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Wednesday as he conferred with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is paying an official visit here.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that Bulgaria supports the EU-Turkey deal on refugees, not Ankara's operation in Syria, and called for an end to fighting. Borissov was answering a question after Tuesday's meeting of the Security Council, the advisory and coordinating body with the Council of Ministers, over the exacerbation of the situation in Syria.

Bulgaria's Ambassador to India Eleonora Dimitrova has signed, on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, an agreement with India's VFS Global outsourcing company, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Another plot to escape both an imminent bankruptcy and prosecution has been put into motion by the indicted oligarch Ivo Prokopiev. This one is similar to his desperate fleeing to Singapore in 2010-2013, when he posed as a victim of some supposed attempted murder in the works just so he can get out of hundreds of millions of levs in debt.