Elections news

Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold general elections on October 4, the Central Election Commission said.

Kosovo's acting president Albulena Haxhiu said she has decided to call early parliamentary election on June 7, the second snap vote in six months, after the parliament failed to elect a president before a deadline set by the constitutional court.

Kosovo is heading to early parliamentary elections for the second time in five months after lawmakers failed to elect a new president by the constitutional deadline on Tuesday due to a lack of quorum, the parliament said.

The landslide victory of the Progressive Bulgaria coalition led by former president Rumen Radev in Sunday's early general election may make Bulgaria more reluctant to participate in EU sanctions against Russia but it is unlikely to become a spoiler state, Dennis Shen, lecturer in finance at the International School of Management and the former Chair of the Macroeconomic Council of the European credit rating agency - Scope, commented for SeeNews.

The Progressive Bulgaria coalition of pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev won Sunday's early parliamentary elections, the eighth vote in five years, with some 38%, insufficient to run the country on its own, exit polls showed.