Up by some 8 per cent are the Bulgarians who expect nothing good in the coming few months, a representative survey of the MBMD polling agency, conducted June 15-19, shows. The spreading pessimism is affecting the ratings of the executive power representatives – the approval rate of the prime minister marked a 4% fall in June, after it was on the rise during the previous two months. The approval rate of Finance Minister Velchev suffered the sharpest fall of 7%, while Foreign Minister Passy and Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister – 5%. Analysts explain the results of the poll with the expected electricity and water price hikes.

Against the background of the falling approval rating in the executive power and the armed forces – no less than 7%, Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry Boyko Borisov holds on to his good position of the last months. A year after the general elections nearly 50% of the respondents view the choice the Bulgarian people made as wrong. 15% think that during the last year the country has improved, while 46% take the opposite view. The majority of the people however have serious doubts politics can solve the problems of the ordinary people - 34% of the Bulgarians will not go to the polls at all. Despite the disappointment, 42% say they will vote in the same year if general elections were to take place now. Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg’s visit in Moscow was followed by very positive response with 71% of the respondents expressing the opinion that it will reflect positively on Bulgaria’s economic development.