Sunday’s election was also marked by a rise in the pro-Russian camp, in the shadow of the war in Ukraine.
The final results of Sunday’s Bulgarian parliamentary elections will not be known until later in the week. But, this Monday morning, the latest data published by the Electoral Commission on the basis of nearly 96% of the votes counted, the two parties led by former Prime Ministers come out on top.
Boiko Borissov’s GERB would collect 26.51% of the vote. “We continue the change”, by Kiril Petkov, is not far behind, with 24.9%. Trends which confirm the projections of the polls carried out before the election.
The prorussians in third position
These results, marked again by a strong abstention (it would reach 39% at least), also confirm the rise in power of the far-right Renaissance party, Europhobic and openly pro-Russian. According to the latest results from the Electoral Commission, he would be on the third step of the podium and would total 14.38%.
The young pro-Russian ultranationalist formation, which took advantage of this geopolitical context to continue its ascent, refuses any delivery of arms to kyiv and openly defends the Kremlin’s ideology. This is also the case of the socialists of the PSB (credited with 8.97% of the vote), heir to the former Communist Party which once ruled the country, which thus finds itself before the DPS which defends the interests of the Turkish minority and Muslim. This received 12.95% of the votes.
In total, six political parties have exceeded 4% of votes and will be present in Parliament. Far from clarifying the situation, this weekend’s elections, the fifth in two years, will probably not allow Bulgaria to emerge from the political crisis into which it has sunk since the fall of Boïko Borissov.
Source: Les Echos
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