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By Denitsa Koseva in Sofia Bulgaria’s Gerb party has won the October 27 snap general election with between 24% and 27% of the vote, exit polls indicated. The party’s leader, three-times former prime minister Boyko Borissov, said he could form a coalition with everyone in the new parliament, except for the far-right pro-Russian Vazrazhdane. Gerb will have around 70 out of 240 MPs in parliament – far short of the number it needs to form a government without coalition partners. Second came pro-Western reformist Change Continues-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) with 14% of the vote, which would give th…

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