Exit poll: Ex-PM’s party leads Bulgaria election Fox News

The coalition of Euro-Atlantic parties “Let’s continue the change” (PP) and “Democratic Bulgaria” (DB) came out on top with a score of 25.3% of the vote. PP leader Kiril Petkov was previously the country’s prime minister but was removed from office in the first vote of no confidence in Bulgaria’s history. At the beginning of the year, the German edition of Die Welt assigned him a key role in supplying Kiev with fuel, weapons and ammunition at the initial stage of the Ukrainian crisis.Another pro-Western coalition of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party with the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) is blowing down their necks. Both parties are real heavyweights on the Bulgarian political scene. GERB leader Boyko Borissov served as prime minister three times, and SDS was one of the two main political movements in the 1990s and early 2000s.The Vozrozhdeniye party, which supports the policy of constructive cooperation with Moscow, and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which defends the interests of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, are vying for third place. Their results are respectively 14.2% and 13.1%.Fifth place is occupied by the “Bulgarian Socialist Party” with 9.9% of the vote.
Bulgarian singer and TV presenter Slavi Trifonov’s part “There is such a people” has 4% – exactly what is needed to exceed the minimum threshold.Bulgaria’s Sunrise party, former defense minister Stefan Yanev, who was ousted for allegedly pro-Russian remarks, did not receive enough support to get the coalition of parties into parliament, according to Gallup of the left and the NDV movement of the former Bulgarian Monarch Simeon II.3.8% of voters voted against all.The April 2 vote is already the fifth parliamentary election in Bulgaria in the past two years. The turnout for them was 35.1% as of 7:00 p.m. All previous attempts to form the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic ended in failure and the appointment of the next early elections.