DPS Party Wins Mayor Elections in Bulgaria's Ruen
Elections 2009 | October 25, 2009, Sunday // 13:30| views
The ethnic Turkish party DPS has won the partial local elections in the Ruen Municipality in southeast Bulgaria.
As expected, the DPS candidate Ismail Osman received 52,5% of the votes and won without a run-off. The candidates of the Socialist Party and GERB received fewer than 5% of the votes.
16 000 of the 27 000 eligible voters cast their votes on Saturday.
85% of the Ruen Municipality, Burgas District, is from the ethnic Turkish minority.
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