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Vasil Terziev: I continue the fight to be the mayor of all Sofians

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Immediately after the results of the exit poll for the mayoral elections in Sofia were announced, from which it became clear that Sofia is going to a runoff for mayor between Vasil Terziev (PP-DB, Save Sofia) with 38.8% and Vanya Grigorova (BSP for Bulgaria, The Left, etc.) - 19%, at a briefing Terziev thanked all the residents of Sofia who came out to vote. 

"Thank you for voting for a different Sofia - the one we dream of, to be a nice European, clean, orderly, green city, where there are no second-hand people, where there are no second-hand neighborhoods... I continue the fight to be mayor of all Sofians," said Terziev, but flatly refused to answer the many questions that journalists had for him.

The chairman of the "Save Sofia" party, Boris Bonev, who commented on the results of the municipal councilor elections in the capital, in which "PP-DB, Save Sofia" received 40.6%. Bonev stated that from today Sofia opens a new page in its history, more successful, more adequate, more open to the future. He pointed out that the received support will allow for the formation of a majority in the municipal council, which will allow for a successful mandate.



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