European support for center right coalition

The central right opposition in Bulgaria is currently forming a coalition ahead of the elections. The liberals SDS and DSB have agreed to cooperate, a decision that is supported by leading circles on the European People's Party, the conservative/ christ democratic group in the EU parliament.

The information comes from Andreas von Belov, head of Konrad Adenauer foundation in Bulgaria. He welcomes a cetner right government that is founded on SDS, DSB and Bojko Borisov's GERB

(As a reference: Swedish members of the European People's Party are Moderaterna and Kristdemokraterna)

Source: Martin Dimitrov's blog

Last opinion polls shows increased support for SDS

The institute NTSIOM has today released a poll where they asked Bulgarians how they would vote if the elections were held today.

• 25% of the participants in the poll said they would not vote at all.
• The big picture is similar to the last Gallup. The Socialists and GERB are the two obvious contendants.
• Among the smaller parties, SDS, one of the parties closest to the protest movement have almost doubled their share, froma round 2 % to 4 %.

ГЕРБ - 24.3% - GERB
БСП - 19.2% - BSP, The Socialists
АТАКА - 10.0% - Ataka, the extreme right wing
ДПС - 8.2% - DPS, the "turkish" minority party
СДС - 4.0% - SDS, moderate right wing opposition
ДСБ - 2.2% - DSB, moderate right wing opposition
Движение НАПРЕД – 2.0% - The movement NAPRED, right wing

These results come from Martin Dimitrov's blog. Smaller parties, non-voters and not-yet-decided voters are excluded.

Sources: Klasa, martindimitrov.com

DSB to ask for the governments resignation

The opposition party DSB have announced that they will once again demand a motion of no confidence for the sitting Bulgarian socialist government. They claim that the negotions with Russia after the Gas quarrel was a betrayal of Bulgarian interests.

Ordinary elections are to take place in six months.

Source: Darik.bg

Which mandate?

Bulgaria e nasha have two new posts.

1. A video from the protests 4th of february. It reccomend it also for non-bulgarian speakers. The slogans say that "Democracy is dead", "Wake up the people" etc. That is also the reason that people hold wake up clocks.  the Ser Go Home! campaign is not launched by SDS as I earlier said but by
   DSB, another liberal opposition party that claim a dissident heritage
2. A theoretical post by Bogomil Shopov. Bogomil critizes the current "free mandate" system, where the MP is not required to vote according to the promises he gave the voters. In stead he is under pressure from the party.

Democracy is not a simple thing. If the voters are to have a direct influence over the MP's, the system will tend to be majoritarian. In a majority system the winner takes it all, and small parties have ver difficult to work. Bogomil writes that DSB are not happy about the idea, and I believe they have a good reason for that, being one of the smaller and less populistic parties in Bulgaria.


One of the significant things about knowledge is that it comes too late. Today first I read an article on the web site bgfactor, that is highly critical about the government, written 12 January, inviting Bulgarians to participate in the protests 14th of January.

The article names who arep protesting and why. These are the new findings that i didn't know or didn't publish, found in the text :

• Bojko Borisov's GERB did not state their support for the protests. (This is the official versions, ther are rumours that they do support the protesting milkfarmers)
• DSB call on its members and sympathizers to participate in the protest.
• Football fans from numerous clubs stated already before that they would protest.

The text is illustrated with pictures from 10th of january 1997, when disowned and furios Bulgarians stormed the parliament and forced the socialist government to resign.