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Bulgaria’s pro-western centre-right alliance Gerb-SDS has emerged as the clear winner of Sunday’s European Parliament elections, projections by opinion research institute Gallup International Balkan showed early on Monday. The alliance headed by former prime minister Boiko Borisov received 24.5% of the vote and is projected to take five seats in the EU legislative. The liberal-conservative PP-DB bloc, which governed in a coalition with Gerb-SDS until March, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), traditionally representing Bulgaria’s Turkish minority, as well as the pro-Russian, EU-sceptic…

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