Bulgaria's centre-right GERB wins up to 32.8 percent in snap election -exit poll


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  • Monday, 27 Mar 2017

Former Bulgarian prime minister and leader of centre-right GERB party Boiko Borisov arrives for a news conference at the party's headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria March 26, 2017. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party narrowly won a parliamentary election on Sunday, giving it a chance to form another government after leader Boiko Borisov resigned as prime minister in November, triggering the snap poll.

The GERB party won 33 percent of the vote, the Balkan country's third in just 4 years, with the leftist Socialists trailing on 27.2 percent, partial official results with 26 percent of the ballots counted showed.

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