In Bulgaria the incumbent government, a single-party minority government led by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov from the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), has gained a parliamentary seat without an extra vote being cast.

Balkans Insight reports that Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has revised the result of last year’s parliamentary election following a recount of the votes cast at 23 polling stations in Turkey. According to the report, the Court ruled that 18,358 votes should be declared null and void. The vast majority of these votes – 18,140 – were initially credited to the ethnic Turkish party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS). However, with these votes being voided, the DPS loses a seat and the GERB gains one.

This change is potentially significant because GERB enjoys only a minority of parliamentary seats, though it has been supported fairly consistently by other forces in parliament since the July election. GERB now has 117 seats, whereas 121 is required for an absolute majority.

The so-called Blue Coalition, which supports the government in parliament, is also going to lose a seat because one of its deputies is being replaced by an independent.