Bulgarians on Long Island

This will be my only post that sways from the usual topics at BULGARIANS ON LONG ISLAND. But this is the most important issue in the world today.

It is time to stand up TALL and be counted.

Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty. This year, 2005, we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation.

While you have read this, someone else has died.

Just think about that for a moment.

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Bulgaria’s Socialists have lost a small percentage of their vote share, officials announced as 99.6% of the ballots were counted.

Late on Sunday afternoon, the Socialist Party percentage stood at 31%. They had 31.13% two hours earlier.

The latest results indicated that the Simeon Saxe-Coburg’s party won 19.88%.

The predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, who was Simeon’s government junior coalition partner and virtually the back seat ruler of the country, ranks third with 12.68 % of the votes.

The nationalist coalition Attack (Ataka) collected 8.16%.

The right-wing United Democratic Forces, headed by former foreign minister Nadezhda Mihaylova, collected 7.7% of the votes.

They are followed closely by another formation from the one-time Union of Democratic Forces, the staunchly anti-communist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria of former prime minister Ivan Kostov (6.45%).

Bulgarian People’s Union, including Sofia’s popular Mayor Stefan Sofianski, Agrarians’ leader Anastasia Moser and Krasimir Karakachanov, leader of the VMRO party ranked seventh with 5.20% of the votes.

The voting in Bulgaria was launched at 6 am and ended 7 pm.

The lowest voters’ turnout was registered in the town of Sliven, whereas the highest one was recorded in Razgrad, 67%, followed by Silistra with 66%.

Elections turnout in Bulgaria has not been so low over the last 16 years, Tsvetozar Tomov from the Skala agency announced.

The sociologist pointed out that the voters’ turnout points out that some 3,6-3,7 million Bulgarians went to the polling stations. In his words the difference in the voters’ turnout in the cities and the villages in the country is not to big.

The voters activated over the last few hours thus reaching a balance, Tomov explained.

The voters’ turnout at Bulgaria’s June 25 general elections reached 53,48% at 7 pm, the Central Elections Committee announced after the end of the election day.

Socialist Coalition for Bulgaria gained 32,23% of the votes in Bulgaria’s general elections, BBSS Gallup said. They are followed by the king’s party SIINM and ethnic MRF that received the support of 10,43% of the voters.

If you happen to be in NYC area you can cast your vote at:

NEW YORK
Bulgarian Consulate General

121 East 62 Street,
Tel: (212) 935 4646
Fax: (212) 319 5955,
e-mail: Bulconsgen@aol.com, consul@consulbulgaria-ny.org

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