Stuck at a Crossroads? Bulgaria After the October 2022 General Elections
On October 2, 2022, Bulgarians voted in general elections for the fourth time in eighteen months. At 39%, turnout was the lowest since 1990 – and the electoral race produced a splintered seven-faction parliament in which the largest group, former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s GERB, controls only 67 of the 240 seats. It is very unlikely that a governing coalition will be successfully formed, and soon the country’s increasingly apathetic voters may have to go to the polls again.
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