These are the third legislative elections of the year. In the other election of the day, presidential, Roumen Radev, outgoing, has arrived largely at the end of the first round.
Le Monde with AFP
It’s a little surprise. A new anti-corruption movement, launched by a duo of quadmennaire entrepreneurs trained in the United States, Talonne the Conservatives, Sunday, November 14, on the occasion of the third legislative elections of the year, according to estimates at the release of the polls.
By collecting more than 23% of the votes, the training continue the change done almost equal to the Conservative Party Gerb, of former Prime Minister Boalko Borissov (nearly 25% of the vote). The latter should not be able to govern ally, leaving the free field to Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev, who started in September to the conquest of power with any experience a few months as ministers within a Interim Cabinet.
“Bulgaria takes a new way,” Felful Petkov, appeared all a smile in front of a cloud of photographers and cameras.
m. Petkov and his acolyte Assen VasiLit, met on Harvard benches, detonate in the Bulgarian political landscape. Their objective: “eradicate corruption” in this last country of the classification within the European Union. The two men said to the “compromise” and “very open to dialogue” to set up a coalition. “Left, Center or Right, No matter,” Assure Kiril Petkov. “If we can stop” corruption “and redistribute the money for the well-being of taxpayers, then we should be able to hear with many parties”.
about 40% of participation
The SLAVI antisystem singer, who had ripped off a victory at the previous ballot, in July, before failing to form a government, tumbled by 24% to get less than 10% of the vote.
Bulgaria has already voted twice, in April then in July 2021, ending a decade of power of Mr. Borissov, weakened by massive events last year. However, the different so-called “change” parties have so far failed to unite to access power.
Many Bulgarians have not even moved: the participation rate was estimated at about 40%. In unison, the different politicians have said their determination to come out of the unprecedented impasse since the end of the communist regime. “Bulgaria needs a government that works normally,” pleaded Kiril Petkov after voting in the capital.
Among the urgent subjects to deal with the management of the sanitary crisis. Because the interim firm appears impotent in the face of the deterioration of the situation.
Roumen Radev in the head
Bulgarians also elect their president on Sunday. Raden Radev, candidate for his succession, goes to the lead at the end of the first round, with 49% of the votes, compared with 25% for his nearest competitor, the rector of the University of Sofia, Anastas Gerdjikov, seconded by The Conservative Party gerb.
The head of state, became popular by supporting the anti-corruption gatherings of the summer of 2020, should therefore easily win on November 21st.
m. Radev, juror enemy of Boïko Borissov, greeted the results of the elections, a sign that “the company wants to break with corruption and arbitrariness”. Parliamentary parties now “the imperative task of training a reformer, anti-corruption and social government,” he exhorted.
These new elections took place in the fourth wave of Covid-19, in the least vaccinated country of the European Union. Hospitals are overflowed by patients and nearly 200 people succumb each day, in this country Balkans where less than a quarter of the 6.9 million inhabitants are completely vaccinated. The mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, on the background of obsolescence of the health system.