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Bulgaria to vote, anti-corruption movements challenge conservative Prime Minister Borissov

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BERLIN – The powerful Bojko Borissov, conservative and member of the EPP but accused of corruption and collusion with the oligarchs by the European Union and yesterday publicly defended by Russia, will he remain in power in Bulgaria where he has dominated the political scene for over a decade? Or will the new movement-parties born from last summer’s wave of anti-corruption protests win? Or finally no one will have a majority, and compromises will be indispensable perhaps in view of new early consultations? We will know in a few hours. Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU, goes to the polls today for the parliamentary elections. Borissov is first in the polls, but not strong enough to rule alone. The new parties fly, the proportional electoral system with a 4 percent barrier can create a fragmented Narodno Sobranye (Parliament). Much depends on the outcome of the vote on the future of balance and stability in the Balkan theses and throughout Europe. Days ago the head of state Rumen Radevleaning against Borissov, he urged people to vote for new faces and new policies that restore trust in institutions.

The polling stations will remain open from 7 to 20 local, ie from 6 to 19 in Italy and Central Europe. Out of just over 7 million inhabitants, the registered voters, including Bulgarians residing abroad, are approximately 6.3 million. Until the last day, Borissov has carried out a tireless campaign both on social forums and traveling the country at the wheel of his SUV: he promises work, great public works and stability, and entry into the eurozone in 2024, boasting his excellent contacts with the European People’s Party of which its Gerb is a member never officially criticized. Economic growth is not lacking, thanks not above all to the generous cohesion funds of the European Union, but corruption, according to Transparency international and other reliable sources, devours resources for over ten billion euros on average every year.

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The latest polls photograph this division of consensus: Borissov’s Gerb would receive 28.1 per cent of the votes; to the traditional socialist party second political force 19.8 per cent. Of the parties born out of the wave of anti-corruption protest last summer, apparently the strongest is “There is also this people” led by Anchorman TV Slavi Trifonov, with 12.7 percent. The other two, namely “Standing” by the former socialist Maya Manolova is at 6 percent, Democratic Bulgaria’s Hristo Ivanov to 6.3 per cent. The party of the strong Turkish minority allied with Borissov and led by Mustafa Karadaja it stood at 12.5 per cent. Among the various ultra-right, nationalist, Slavophile and anti-Western forces, only the VMRO would exceed the 4 percent threshold.

Borissov hopes to win but fears a Pyrrhic victory. If his votes added to those of Karadaja are not enough, he will have to try emergency solutions. There is talk of a grand coalition with historical socialist opponents, perhaps only in view of new early elections, or attempts to compromise with anti-corruption parties. But Trifonov, who leads the strongest of the three, excludes any government pact “with any old party”. Uncertainty is therefore at its maximum, the capital Sofia, the EU and NATO live hours of waiting and tension in the heat of the white.

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