Called on the polls Sunday after the collapse of the ephemeral government of the proeuropian centrist Kiril Petkov, the Bulgarians have once again designated a broken and polarized parliament.
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Four legislative elections in eighteen months and still no prospect of stable government. Called to the ballot boxes Sunday October 2 for new early elections after the collapse in July of the ephemeral government of the proeuropian centrist Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian citizens have once again designated a exploded and polarized parliament which should not allow the formation of A majority, extending the political crisis that has shaken this country of the Balkans since April 2021.
This crisis finds its source in the desire to return to power of the former conservative minister Boïko Borissov, 63, who led Bulgaria in an almost continuous manner between 2009 and 2021 by multiplying the corruption scandals. His party, the GERB, is remarkable stability and came at the top of Sunday, with 25.1 % of the votes, according to the projections of the Alpha Institute. But this former police officer, who is used to sleeping with a firearm on his bedside table, has so far been unable to find political forces ready to support him to form a majority due to the deep rejection he arouses in the rest of the Bulgarians.
In his place, Kiril Petkov, a former 42 -year -old entrepreneur trained at Harvard, had managed a surprise breakthrough in the third anticipated legislative elections in November 2021, promising to fight corruption. But his government, made up of four parties with different geopolitical orientations, quickly collapsed after having displayed divisions on relations to be held with Russia, in this country where a whole section of public opinion remains Russophile. Sunday, he arrived in second position with 18.9 % of the votes, down six points compared to the previous anticipated legislative elections. 2>
of too sulphurous profiles
Despite this downward score, he again excluded to form a coalition with Mr. Borissov. “We have promised that we will not make a coalition with the Gerb and we will hold this promise,” said Petkov on Sunday evening. Unlike November 2021, he should however be unable to form an alternative government. Its outgoing allies of the Socialist Party and the Democratic Bulgarian Center Party should indeed only obtain 44 seats, which will be far from allowing the outgoing coalition to reach the required majority of 121 seats.
Several small other training courses could certainly allow in theory to complete a majority, but they all have too sulphurous profile. The movement of rights and freedoms, which represents the Turkish minority, has made a surprise breakthrough with 14.8 % of the votes, but its image remains associated with the multiple corruption affairs in recent years, not to mention that he presented on his lists ‘Oligarch Delyan Peekvski, sanctioned in 2021 by the United States “for its important role in corruption in Bulgaria”.
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