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Last night Bulgarians went to the polls in order to choose their next (45th) National Assembly. With a historic turnout and surprises on all fronts let us delve deeper into the 2021-Parliamentary Elections of Bulgaria  Turnout via @politics_bg      With pollsters showing a historically  low turnout of  around 40% or even less, the  future of the Bulgarian democracy hanged in the balance, but yet the voters proved that statement wrong. As of now the finally turnout is unknow, but it is expected for it to rise above 47%, this meaning that more than 3 million Bulgarians went to the polls yesterday, proving that they still have an active society. Even though it was a rainy day, not counting the COVID-19 restrictions, there were meters-long lines in front of the polls. This was the first time electoral machines were used in parliamentary elections in the country, and even though in several oblast (namely V. Târnovo and Dobrič) the machines were pu...

  "The new 240..." A sentence we have heard countless times for the last half-an-year and so. The next 240 politicians that will decide the future of Europe's poorest country. Lets delve deeper on what will influence the electorate in these elections and what results can we expect. A year of protests The whole of 2020 was marked by strong distrusts in the ruling status-quo of the country. Years of held-up anger burst into the streets of Sofia and other large cities, resulting into missive protest, in the tens-of-thousands. Yet the whole movement did not achieve what was initially planed: the resignation of prime-minister and high-prosecutor. Non e the less the protest movement gave birth to several extra-parliamentary movements, which carry the message of the dissatisfied citizens, right into the heart of the country. Now how faithful will these new parties be to the ones who gave the initial push, that is yet to be seen. ...

1990-protests "The time is ours" First "democratic" party.-SDS    After the fall of the communist regime, Bulgaria experienced it's first free elections in more than 45 years. The two main pretenders to form the first democratic government of Bulgaria where the center-left BSP and the center-right SDS, being head-to-head in the 1991 lagislative elections.    Bulgaria entered a period of "typical western democracy", with one big party on the Left and one big party of the Right, yet non of them managed to establish themselves as a united force to lead the democratisation process.     BSP quickly succumbed to separatism, leading to underperforming results in coming elections, especially after the highly controversial Žan Videnov-government (1994-1997).    Yet SDS didn't manage to abuse the situation and established themselves as the sole "super-party". They experienced the same separatist problem as BSP, but because they where a much younger...