2007 European Parliament election in Bulgaria
Until Bulgaria could hold these elections, the country was represented by MEPs appointed by the National Assembly.[1] Controversially, the eligible voters were limited to citizens of Bulgaria and the EU with their permanent and current address within the Union and a minimum of 60 days of the last three months before the elections spent within its borders.The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death and the Bulgarian doctor who received a lighter sentence in the HIV trial in Libya were slated to stand as the six leading candidates on the list of the populist Order, Law and Justice Party – to put pressure on Libya to release the nurses and to postpone their execution because of the immunity they would have as MEPs.The breakdown of parties and their European Parliament political groups for the period 1 January 2007 to 20 May 2007 was as follows: The official results were announced by the Central Electoral Commission on 21 May.According to the official data, the winner of the elections was GERB, followed by a small margin by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, with the distance between the third and the first being less than 1.5%.
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