Bulgaria Vote Leaves Gerb Short of Majority, Results Show
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Bulgaria’s former ruling party, Gerb, fell short of a parliamentary majority in early elections in the European Union’s poorest country.
Gerb, led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, took 30.7 percent of the vote, compared with 27.6 percent for the Bulgarian Socialist Party, according to preliminary results based on 99.3 percent of the ballots counted, the Central Electoral Commission said on its website today.