Date: 3/11/2003

Stefan Sofiyanski Reelected for the Third Time

Stefan Sofiyanski was reelected for a third mandate as a mayor of Sofia after a ballot vote on November 2nd, 2003.
He won with exactly 34 578 votes more than the candidate supported by BSP and coalition Stoyan Alexandrov.
After the final counting Sofiyanski got 246 161 votes and Alexandrov - 211 574.

Before the ballot vote the new old mayor of Sofia Mr. Sofiyanski was supported by the UDF, the Gergiovden coalition, and NMSII, who invoked their supporters to vote for Sofiyanski at the second stage of the elections.

BSP and coalition leads in the municipal councilors’ list with 26.62%, followed by UDF with 23.30% and the party of the mayor Sofiyanski Union Free Democrats, which got 21.02%.
The Gergiovden coalition also got a considerable number of votes for municipal councilors (9.73%), followed by NMSII with 6.07%.

Right after his reelection Stefan Sofiyanski announced that he would work hard on four most important problems in the city: the finalization of the reconstruction of the Rotunda Church and the Banski Square, the initiating of a new methodology for charging the waste, the closing of the budget year and the acceleration of the negotiations for a waste recycling factory.

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