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Mass abstention in Bulgarian elections The July 11 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria highlighted the deep political crisis in the eastern European Union state. Slavi Trifonov’s protest party ITN (“There Is Such a People”), which emerged victorious, is supported by fewer than one in 10 eligible voters. A pedestrian walks by political adds in the Bulgarian city of Kyustendil (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) This result exemplifies the political situation in Eastern Europe, where the majority of the population harbors deep mistrust of the entire political elite. Overall voter turnout was only 42...

Bulgarians are losing count of the scandals. There’s a Watergate-style wiretapping scandal. There’s an agricultural tycoon accusing the government of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov of extortion. And there’s a state-owned bank providing hundreds of millions of euros to a small batch of favored companies. The country’s dizzying daily headlines feel more like plotlines from a hit mafia series on Netflix than actual events unfolding in a European Union member country ahead of an election on July 11.  The big question is whether this is finally a tipping point that spells a defin...

Las segundas elecciones en Bulgaria en tres meses no desbloquearon el punto muerto en el que se encuentra el país. Los conservadores y el partido protesta Existe Tal Pueblo (ITN) se disputan una ajustadísima victoria tras los comicios de este domingo que no les dará una mayoría para gobernar. Aunque las encuestas a pie de urna dieron al cerrar los colegios electorales la victoria por escaso margen a los conservadores de Ciudadanos para el Desarrollo Europeo de Bulgaria (GERB), liderados por el ex primer ministro Boiko Borisov, con el paso del tiempo ese triunfo se puso cada vez más en du...

Под чертата остават Българските патриоти с 3,3 %, а Възраждане с 2,6%. Данните на агенция "Маркет линкс" от паралелното преброяване на 98%:  Има такъв народ - 22,8% ГЕРБ - СДС - 22,5%

No clear winner emerged from Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, with the centre-right GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov narrowly ahead of the new anti-elite party There Is Such a People (ITN). Surveys by Gallup International and Alpha Research showed GERB at 22.1 percent to 23.5 percent, and ITN, led by popular TV host and singer Slavi Trifonov, on 21.5 percent to 22.3 percent in the election, Bulgaria’s second in three months. The close exit poll results underscore deep divisions over the legacy of Borissov’s decade-long rule, amid growing ...