Bulgarien

The ruling party GERB won the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria with 31.07% of the votes. Second is the BSP (Bulgarian Socialist Party) with 24.26%, while the third is the Movement of rights and freedoms (DPS) with 16.55% (which candidate was Delyan Peevsky – the person that provoked huge...

Analysis from a partner of transform! on the political landscape in Bulgaria ahead of the European Elections.

Results 2014 +++ Short overview of the European elections in Bulgaria 2014 On May 22-25, 2014, the citizens of the European Union voted on the composition of the European Parliament for the eighth time. In Bulgaria, the European elections were held on May 25, 2014. Despite the increased...

The centre-right alliance of former Prime Minister Borisov has won Bulgaria's 5th parliamentary election in two years. But the status quo remains, and the prospect of a sixth election is not implausible.

Georgi Pirinski analysiert die Parlamentswahlen, die Anfang Oktober in Bulgarien stattfanden. Wie wirkt sich das Ergebnis auf zentrale Themen wie die Korruptionsbekämpfung und Bulgariens Position zum Ukraine-Krieg aus? Und welche Konsequenzen hat die Wahl für die bulgarische Linke?

On April 4 in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, 25% of voters supported Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's right-wing party, GERB. But new parties that campaigned on anti-corruption and Covid denial also did extremely well. The left's decline is disastrous.

The ‘Anti-corruption’ fight in Bulgaria that erupted again on 9 July is caught in a clash between two conflicting concepts of what is at stake.

The collective panic of the fear-stricken citizens of the West is accompanied by a particularly irritating hype over how the world will not be the same after Covid-19 is eradicated. For those of us living in Eastern Europe, this is yet another nail in the coffin rather than anything else.

The proposed amendments in the Bulgarian Election code will not address the real problems. A majority voting electoral system cannot eliminate the problem with distrust in political parties, low turnout, unrepresentative, corrupted and dysfunctional public institutions.

This interview was taken by Ioanna Drosou from the Greek newspaper Epohi and the original version in Greek is available >here. It has been published in English at >LeftEast platform.

In Bulgarien wurden am 12. Mai vorgezogene Parlamentswahlen abgehalten. Sie waren eine Folge des Rücktritts der regierenden Partei GERB, der durch beispiellose und im ganzen Land stattfindende massive Proteste im Februar durchgesetzt worden war.

In den letzten beiden Monaten wurde Bulgarien, das passivste Land auf dem traditionell kriegerischen Balkan, von Protesten erschüttert. Seit Anfang Februar sind viele Bewohner/innen in den meisten Großstädten des Landes auf den Straßen, um gegen die Erhöhung der Strom- und Heizkosten zu protestieren. Nach nur wenigen Nächten mit Zusammenstößen zwischen Polizei und Protestierenden trat die Regierung von Bojko Borissow und seiner Partei GERB zurück.