If early elections for parliament were to be held, GERB party would be first with 23.6% of the votes. The ruling We Continue the Change is second with 21.4%, indicates a survey by Trend agency, conducted from 5 to 12 July and commissioned by 24 Chasa newspaper. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms comes third with 10,7%, followed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party – 9.8%, Vazrazhdane – 9.6% and Democratic Bulgaria – 6.9%. The new party founded by former caretaker PM Stefan Yanev Bulgarski Vuzhod (Bulgaria on the rise) would garner 5.7% of the votes (the electoral threshold being 4%) and would enter the next parliament. Former coalition partner in the outgoing government There Is Such a People, ITN, marks a downturn, with 3.8% of the votes.
The government of outgoing PM Kiril Petkov is ending its tenure with an approval rating of 22%, and 70% disapproval. 45% say they expect the economic situation in the country to grow worse next year, 15% expect an improvement.
The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that observed Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections on October 27 noted the professional organization and conduct of the vote, but also highlighted a lack of trust among voters..
The Chiren underground gas storage is 100% full of natural gas, "Bulgartransgaz" has reported. According to the European regulation for guaranteeing the security of gas supplies during the upcoming heating season, gas storages in EU..
Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev announced at a briefing at the Novo Selo training ground that the government has successfully dealt with vote buying. He gave an example with the increased number of inspections of the voting..
According to the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections, the MECH party is emerging as a new player in parliament. The acronym MECH stands..
Data from the parallel count, with 100% of the sample counted, by the polling agency Gallup International Balkan, partner of BNR in the coverage of the..
After the early parliamentary elections on October 27, the Central Election Commission published data of 100% of processed tally sheets...
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