If you’re following from outside Bulgaria, one small tip is to check the OSCE/ODIHR election observation reports afterward, they’re surprisingly readable and give good context on irregularities and media bias.
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My two cents for the major players as a Bulgarian:
– Radev party – a new party, leans pro-Russian, but is also pro-US, EU skeptic.
– PP-DB – pro-EU, strongly opposes Russia. When they were in power, Bulgaria helped Ukraine with a lot of weapons (Bulgaria has leftover factories from Soviet times for ammuniton and Ukraine needed exactly this at that time)
– GERB (Boyko Borissov’s party) – pro-EU, but corrupt, mostly pro-EU out of pragmatism
– Vazrazhdane – far-right, irredentist fascists. Pro-Russian, anti-EU, anti-US. Funded 100% by Russia, and yet they are polling at 7% to 10% of the votes. Really scary
– DPS-NN – the party of the Bulgarian Turks, but currently they are led by a mafia boss who is sanctioned by the US
– BSP – the socialist party, they are getting more unpopular with every election as they are the descendants of the communist party in Bulgaria
Radev will most probably win the election (Bulgarians always vote for the new thing) but the real question is will he be able to form a governing coalition? Because Radev, Vazrazhdane and BSP have some major disagreements. We’ll see
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If you’re following from outside Bulgaria, one small tip is to check the OSCE/ODIHR election observation reports afterward, they’re surprisingly readable and give good context on irregularities and media bias.
My two cents for the major players as a Bulgarian:
– Radev party – a new party, leans pro-Russian, but is also pro-US, EU skeptic.
– PP-DB – pro-EU, strongly opposes Russia. When they were in power, Bulgaria helped Ukraine with a lot of weapons (Bulgaria has leftover factories from Soviet times for ammuniton and Ukraine needed exactly this at that time)
– GERB (Boyko Borissov’s party) – pro-EU, but corrupt, mostly pro-EU out of pragmatism
– Vazrazhdane – far-right, irredentist fascists. Pro-Russian, anti-EU, anti-US. Funded 100% by Russia, and yet they are polling at 7% to 10% of the votes. Really scary
– DPS-NN – the party of the Bulgarian Turks, but currently they are led by a mafia boss who is sanctioned by the US
– BSP – the socialist party, they are getting more unpopular with every election as they are the descendants of the communist party in Bulgaria
Radev will most probably win the election (Bulgarians always vote for the new thing) but the real question is will he be able to form a governing coalition? Because Radev, Vazrazhdane and BSP have some major disagreements. We’ll see