Bulgaria’s GERB Lags behind Socialists - Poll

Politics » DOMESTIC | September 16, 2013, Monday // 08:31
Bulgaria: Bulgaria’s GERB Lags behind Socialists - Poll The leaders of the two main political formations in Bulgaria - Boyko Borisov (GERB, left) and Sergey Stanishev (Socialists, right). Photo by BGNES

Bulgarians remain divided in their approval or disapproval of the two biggest parties in the country - the opposition center-right GERB and the left-wing Socialist party, according to a freshly released poll of the Sova Harris agency.

The poll has been commissioned by Bulgarian Pressa (Press) daily.

If the elections were to be held now, the formerly-ruling centrist and opposition Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, would gather 17.9% (1 million ballots) of the vote, while the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, will get 20.9% (1.1 – 1.2 million ballots).

The only other parties likely to pass the 4% election threshold and enter the country's next parliament are the liberal, predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms with 6%, the recently-founded right-leaning Reformist Block (including Bulgaria for Citizens of former EU Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, which came close to 4% at the last vote) with 7.6% and the recenlty launched party Bulgaria without Censorship of controversial TV journalist Nikolay Barekov with 4.8%.

The extreme nationalist party Ataka, currently in the Parliament, would get only 2.1% and its biggest rival, the nationalist National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria, NFSB, which came close to 4% in the May 12 early elections, would garner 2.3%.

There are also separate results for another party in the Reformist Block, Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, DSB, which would get 1.3%.

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Tags: GERB, Bulgarian Socialist Party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Reformist Block, BSP, DPS, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, Ataka, National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria, NFSB, Sova Harris, Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria for Citizens, DSB, Bulgaria without Censorship, Nikolay Barekov

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