SecondIn the Bulgarian parliamentary elections, according to preliminary predictions, a new anti-corruption party is taking the lead. However, it goes hand-in-hand with the bourgeois GERB party. The three voting agencies saw the party “We are continuing to change” (PP) on Sunday night and received 26% of the vote.
The GERB party of the head of government that was vetoed in April Boiko Boriso It should be ranked second with about 23% of the votes. According to forecasts, a total of seven political parties can enter the parliament. These include nationalism and Corona Denial Wasrashdane (“Rebirth”). No official interim results are expected until Monday morning.
The third parliamentary election in a year is necessary because the People’s Assembly, which was elected in July alone, cannot obtain a majority that can govern.
Bulgaria embarks on a “new path”
“Bulgaria is embarking on a new path,” Kirill Petkov, co-chairman of the Anti-Corruption Party, said on election night. Graduates of Harvard, a prestigious American university, raised the prospect of forming a coalition government around the new party. Talks between the coalition and representatives of other political parties should begin on Monday. Petkow ruled out cooperation with Borissows GERB and the Turkish party DPS.As the main goal, he named the confrontation corruption And judicial reform. From May to September, Petkov served as Minister of Economic Affairs in the Transitional Cabinet.
In the presidential election, it is predicted that the head of state Rumen Radu won the first round of voting with 49% of the vote. Nevertheless, he had to go to the runoff with the second-ranked Anastas Gerdschikow (25%) because he could not unite more than half of the votes. Radu, a former fighter pilot and air force commander, was supported by the socialists (former communists) and the protest party. The president of Sofia Gerdschikow University runs in an independent capacity and is supported by Borisov’s GERB party.
The double elections in the poorest EU country were organized during the fourth outbreak of the new coronavirus. Mobile ballot boxes were provided for Covid-19 patients and quarantined persons. It turns out that the turnout rate is very low. The Central Electoral Commission (ZIK) talked about record lows.
