Bulgaria will go to the polls tomorrow to overcome the political crisis

 

People in Bulgaria will go to the polls tomorrow for early general elections in the hope of resolving the political crisis in the country.

Bulgaria is going to the elections for the 5th time in the last 2 years. The people of Bulgaria will elect 240 deputies of the 49th People's Assembly in the country where a stable government is needed. In the elections, 5,621 candidates from 15 parties and 7 coalitions will compete to enter the parliament. Voting will start at 07:00 local time in 11,818 ballot boxes in the country where there are more than 6 million voters and will end at 20:00. Paper ballot papers will be used in the elections, but electronic machines will also be used in the ballot boxes with more than 300 voters. In addition, in order to prevent irregularities, the vote counting process at polling stations will be recorded with video for the first time. Bulgarian citizens abroad will be able to vote in 737 ballot boxes established in 61 countries. The 5th early general election to be held in the last 2 years will cost 87.7 million leva (936 million 45 thousand Turkish Liras).

While the turnout in the last general elections on October 2, 2022 was 39.4 percent, this rate is not expected to increase tomorrow.

162 ballot boxes will be established in Turkey and 162 ballot boxes will be established in 24 provinces in neighboring Turkey for The Elections

in Bulgaria . Thus, dual citizens will vote. Cevat Güneş, President of the Thrace Balkan Turks Culture and Solidarity Association, in an interview with the local media, said, "This year, dual citizens will shape the future of both countries. First they will go to the polls for the 49th People's Assembly of Bulgaria on April 2, then on May 14." They will be able to cast their votes in the general elections in Turkey," he said.

POLITICAL CRISIS IN Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, on 22 June 2022, the coalition government led by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov lost the vote of confidence in the parliament. The political crisis that started after the fall of the government deepened with the failure of other parties in the parliament to form a government. President Rumen Radev gave the task of forming the government to the Citizens' Initiative for the European Future of Bulgaria (GERB), which finished first in the election, and GERB failed. While the We Continue to Change Alliance, which Radev later assigned, could not form the government, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was also unable to fulfill the task. Radev had decided to hold re-elections on April 2, 2023, when 3 of the 7 political parties that entered the parliament failed in their attempt to form a coalition government.

On the other hand, after the general elections held on April 4, 2021, July 11, 2021 and November 14, 2021 in the country, efforts to form a government were unsuccessful.