Why Bulgaria is Headed for its 7th Election in 3 Years

USA: Oh no we are having our once every 4 year election, this is is so Tense Bulgaria: Amateurs.

At this rate Bulgarian political parties will depress voters until only those running for seats are doing the voting.

As a Bulgarian, I prefer listening to this rather than to local interpretations.

Bulgaria being stable for once challenge IMPOSSIBLE

We have that saying: In other countries, they have a mafia, In Bulgaria the mafia has a country.

"the mafia kingpin" - I could not say it better even if i tried

as a Bulgarian, this now feels like a comedy version of Game of Thrones.

Everyone expects Bulgaria's politics to be "insane" , even if they don't know the details. "Sane" politics would be newsworthy 🤷🏻‍♀️

The most interesting thing about this whole debacle is that the country has performed quite well economically during the last 3 years. It turns out that Bulgaria runs well without a government.

It's worth mentioning also that despite EU's criticisms of Bulgaria's corruption issue, Ursula von der Leyen personally came to Bulgaria to lend support to GERB-SDS in the run up to the latest elections. GERB-SDS is a member of EPP so apparently a political group's interests supersede principles.

TLDR team is on fire: covering 12 elections in one year 🔥

“Oh my freaking God, again?” - me seeing the title

I did a study about disillusionment with democracy in Europe, Bulgaria made the top 3 in every metric when it came to the countries whos citizens are most disillusioned with democracy and don't trust their institutions.

You missed out on soooo much juicy details. In the last week alone: - the DPS party, formaly headed by Peevsky, and in the background being run by it's founder Ahmed Dogan, saw its first ever split in the vote and failed to back Borisov's proposal for a government. It could very well split into 2 separate wings, due to ethnic and financial reasons. - The latest and smallest party - Velichie (a new nationalist party), which as a surprise to all polling agencies, managed to take 4% of the last vote, split up due to inner occusations of corruption and siding with the enemy, death threats were being exchanged between its leaders, and it basically no longer exists. Less than 30 days after the election. - The nationalist Revival party is proposing to work with the PP party. They represent two absolutely opposite worldviews and are totally non-compatible. What a fun time to follow politics.

As I Bulgarian it breaks my heart that we made it to the world news... Also the main problem in my opinion is that only 36% of the population even votes. The situation is much worse than you think. People lost faith...

How about EPPs Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Webber personally supporting Boyko Borissov and his party GERB and being blind about how corrupted he/they are. And than we are wondering why euroscepticism grows…

Belgium s Record has been beaten

Game of thrones in real life is in Bulgaria.

They just made a bet with Belgium 🤷🏻‍♀️

Always remember that the easiest way to keep hold of power in a corrupt country, is using "anti-corruption" to get rid of your corrupt competition.