Send to KindleTurnout in October 23 presidential and municipal elections in Bulgaria will likely be around 55%, according to a number of studies announced Saturday.
The opinion agencies Alpha Research, Gallup and Mediana all announced similar results regarding Bulgarian citizens' intention to vote in the polls, some reaching a percentage as high as 60-5%.
Rerprentatives nevertheless commented that such figures, based on people's stated intentions before the vote, are usually lower than the actual turnout on election day.
Kolyo Kolev from Mediana and Andrey Raychev from Gallup further commented that some 75-80% of voters will vote motivated not so much by the support for their chosen candidate, but rather in order to voice a negative opinion for those in power.
At the same time, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov is retaining some 25-30% approval rate.
Rosen Plevneliev, the presidential candidate of Borisov's GERB party, has a comfortable lead in opinion polls and is expected to get some 35% of the vote in the first round.
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Bulgaria spared over BGN 8 M in state budget money by carrying out its local and presidential elections on the same date in 2011, the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated.
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