Bulgaria ・ Political crisis

Seven elections in three years and still without government

02 November 2024

Yes, you heard right – welcome to Bulgaria, where we just voted for the seventh time in three years. In this new favourite sport for the nation, eight new parties made it to the parliament while the ninth – Velichie, was left out, just 21 votes short of getting in. With its results standing at 3.9%, out of the minimum 4% that a party needs to make it to the parliament, the nationalist party blamed the Central Election Commission. Concerns over election fraud have also risen, after a woman from a southwestern town was caught by the mandatory cameras installed in all polling stations, filling blank ballots and voting multiple times for the winning GERB party and another one.


〉"Velichie" remains out of the 51st parliament

〉The missing votes: Is there a vote spillover from Velichie to other parties?

〉"Let's count them too." A committee member in a section in Belica was filmed

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