The conservative populist GERB party, led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, won the Bulgarian general election on Sunday, its fifth in two years. 26.7% of the votesIt is ahead of the reformist PP-BD bloc with 24.7%.
According to 81% of the completed vote, the third party with the most votes was nevertheless the ultranationalist party. Vazrazhdane (Resurrection), with 14.6%, ahead of the DPS Rights and Freedoms movement with 12.7%.
After these forces, he entered the Turkish Grand National Assembly. 240 seats The socialists (former communists) of the BSP with 9% and the populists of the ITN with an astonishing 4.2% of the vote.
Turnout in these elections was particularly lowWith close to 40% of the 6.6 million people who have the right to vote at home and abroad, it is a sign that the citizen is fed up with the political class, after two years of almost permanent political crisis.
With the results of these new elections, which are not very different from the previous ones, in 2022; The establishment of a stable government will continue to be a very difficult task.
The simplest formula would be a coalition between Borisov and the reformist bloc, also led by the former prime minister. Kirill Petkov.
But Petkov’s PP-DB excludes cooperation with GERB Borisov, who during his twelve years in the executive from 2009-2021, was responsible for establishing a corrupt government system in Bulgaria close to the local mafia and oligarchies.
Meanwhile, the Balkan country, a member of NATO and the European Union, will continue to be ruled by an interim administrator appointed by the president, a former pro-Russian general. Romanian Radevthus maintaining an extraordinary influence on the government.