🇧🇬 Bulgarian elections megathread (next up: European and National (?) Parliament 09 June 2024)

[DavidB.]

What happened to VRMRO and the other former United Patriots parties? I've seen on Twitter that the VMRO MEPs in Brussels are quite pro-Ukraine; does that go against the general mood on the Bulgarian hard right?

[DavidB.]

Many thanks for your elaborate response.

[DavidB.]

What are the differences between Revival and BV?

[DavidB.]

Is there a turnout estimate yet? Sorry, I forget if this is easily found somewhere else.

On kapital.bg I’m reading 37.8%.

[DavidB.]

Any combination of GERB, DPS and BSP is about the worst possible outcome when it comes to combatting corruption and state capture, no?

What's the upside for BV in allying with VMRO? Is VMRO like Slovak SNS in that they have a lot of money due to participating in government some time ago?

[DavidB.]

The exit polls may have had it wrong:

This is still within the margin of error, no? (Although 26.9% to 24.6% is on the boundary of it...) Just a number of shy V voters, who were therefore underpolled + eager "smartbeautiful" PP/DB voters being slightly overpolled (or not even that).

[DavidB.]

GERB-DPS-BSP. The corruption coalition. That, or round 6.

[DavidB.]

Vazrazhdane had gained enough signatures to put Euro adoption up for referendum, but Parliament rejected it last week:

Ridiculous that this was rejected. This is why constitutions should provide for automatically organizing a binding referendum once the required number of signatures is reached instead of needing approval from parliament first. Not adopting the Euro without having an official opt-out is accepted by the European Commission; Sweden sets the precedent.