Sofia (EFE).- The conservative populist GERB party, led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, won the Bulgarian general elections this Sunday, the fifth in two years, with 26.7% of the vote, ahead of the reformist PP-block. BD, with 24.7%.
With 81% of the ballot completed, the third most voted party was against all odds the ultranationalist Vazrazhdane (Resurrection), with 14.6%, ahead of the DPS Rights and Freedoms movement, with 12.7%.
Behind these forces, the BSP socialists (ex-communists) entered the 240-seat Parliament, with 9%, and surprisingly also the ITN populists, with 4.2% of the vote.
Low involvement
Participation in these elections was especially low, with close to 40% among the 6.6 million people with the right to vote inside and outside the country, a sign of citizen weariness with the political class after two years of almost permanent political crisis.
With the results of these new elections, which do not vary much from the previous ones in 2022, the formation 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 led by former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.
However, Petkov’s PP-DB rules out cooperation with Borisov’s GERB, which they consider to be responsible for installing a corrupt government system in Bulgaria close to local mafias and oligarchies during his twelve years in office, between 2009 and 2021.
Meanwhile, the Balkan country, a member of NATO and the European Union, will continue to be governed by an interim executive appointed by the president, former pro-Russian general Rumen Radev, who thus maintains unusual influence over the government.