The GERB political party is the winner of the sixth early parliamentary elections and the regular European elections in Bulgaria, BGNES reported.
Boiko Borisov's party received nearly 26% of the vote today, according to the first exit polls.
Second place is still uncertain. It is contested by We Continue Change-Democratic Bulgaria (WCC-DB) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) with almost equal results between 15.4% and 15.6%. The fourth place remains for the "Vuzrazhdane" political party with 14%.
Bulgarian Socialist Party and "There is Such People" -TSP of the showman Slavi Trifonov got 9% and 6.3% of the vote respectively.
The big surprise of this vote is the "Greatness" formation, headed by Ivelin Nikolov and former lieutenant colonel Nikolai Markov, which is close to the 4 per cent barrier to enter parliament.
All other formations " Sword", "Blue Bulgaria" and " Solidarity Bulgaria" are below 2%.
Bulgaria today made two elections in one - regular elections to the European Parliament and the sixth early parliamentary elections since 2021.
The national parliamentary elections were contested by 32 political formations - 20 parties, one independent candidate and 11 coalitions. Bulgaria will send 17 MEPs to the European Parliament.
The question remains whether a government will be formed or Bulgaria will head towards the seventh consecutive early parliamentary elections.
At the moment, Bulgaria is governed by a caretaker government headed by Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev.
The exit polls data
According to Trend's exit poll, the votes are distributed as follows: for GERB-UDF- 25.8%, WCC-DB - 15.5%, MRF - 14.7%, Revival - 14.2%, BSP - 8.9%, TSP - 6.5%, Greatness - 3.2%, Blue Bulgaria - 1.5%, Solidarna Bulgaria - 1.4%, VMRO - 1%, Left - 0.6, others - 6.4%.
According to the data from the Trend Agency's express poll, GERB-UDF gets 73 MPs in the Bulgarian parliament, WCC-DB - 44, MRF - 42, Revival - 39, BSP - 24, TSP - 18.
The exit poll data according to Trend Agency show that GERB-UDF will elect 5 MEPs, PP-DB - 3, "Revival" - 3, MRF - 2, "BSP for Bulgaria" - 2, ITN - 1.
GERB-UDF is leading in the European Parliament elections with 26.2%, according to Gallup International's exit poll.
The second place is held by WCC-DB with 15.7%. Third and fourth - "Revival" with 15.4% and fourth are MRF with 11.7%. They are followed by BSP - 9.7%, TSP - 6.4%. With "I do not support anyone" voted 3.1% of voters. The turnout for the EP elections in our country is 29.8%.With these results GERB would score 5 MEPs, WCC-DB and "Revival" three each, MRF and BSP two each and TSP - one MEP.
"Alpha Research" for parliamentary elections: GERB - 26.2% ; WCC-DB - 15.7% ; "Revival" - 14.5%; MRF - 14.3%; BSP - 9.1%; TSP - 5.8%.
"Alpha Research" for European elections.
"Market Links" for parliamentary elections: GERB - 27,9%; WCC-DB- 15,9%; "Revival" - 12%; MRF - 15,9%; BSP - 8,3%; TSP - 6,6%.
"Market Links" for European elections: GERB - 28,1%; WCC-DB- 15,9%; "Revival" - 12,6%; MRF - 15,3%; BSP - 8,1%; TSP - 6,5%. | BGNES
