Bulgaria, since its accession to the
EU in 2007, is participating for the fourth time in the
elections European elections to designate its 17 deputies in the
Strasbourg Assembly. But this is the first time that the EU
vote, scheduled for June 9, is combined with the national
parliamentary elections, yet another early election in the
atmosphere of solid political instability that has marked the
Balkan country for several years.
Demographic surveys agree that just one-third of Bulgarians
consider the European elections necessary, compared to more than
50 percent of those who favor national ones. According to
experts and analysts, voters' choices among the 31 parties and
coalitions running for the 50th National Legislature will not
differ substantially from those for the 30 lists for the
European Parliament.
Not surprising, then, is the latest poll by the Mediana
agency, which forecasts that the nationalists of the Vazrazhdane
(Revival) party would surpass the liberals of the Continuing
Change party (PP) and that the Turkish minority party Movement
for Rights and
Freedom (DPS) would come second with 15.7 percent of the vote
after the conservative Gerb party, the favorite one according to
Mediana, with 27.7 percent.
Mediana underlines that about a quarter of voters who say
they plan to go to the polls—more than 600,000 people—would not
have decided who to vote for. Their final decision could
radically change the vote outcome even for the European
elections.
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