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

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

- last but not least: personalities do matter. The 97-01 'Old Right' PM's choice to appoint a sycophantic paranoid schizophrenic as chief prosecutor (who eventually turned against the PM) left the criminal justice system a mess that was ripe for takeover by the current puppetmasters.

Wait, what?

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

- there may be a very ugly implication in the fact that the great result for DB is achieved in the first election where they have a massive observer machine in operation (by the way, they will report the results live and will be much faster than the authorities since they will only need to report the precinct protocols, while the official results will need to be fed into the central commission's computers

How common is electoral fraud believed to be? I've always heard dark whispers but never much concrete.

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

This is my favourite thread on the forum.

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

The Hartling government in Denmark between '73 and '75 must surely hold the record, Venstre only held 12% of the seats.

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

- there is plenty of time until the election, but ISNI (previously known as IS!MV!) are almost certainly out of the next parliament, although many, if not all, components of their coalition may still make it in some form. I doubt there is enough interest to expand on the number of reasons why, but it is probably enough to say that this movement has outlived its purpose.

I, for one, would definitely be interested. Is it just to do with DB being more credible and Manolova being a highly-strung personality?

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

Apologies to Heat for not answering his question earlier.

Not to worry, it was more than worth the wait!

And finally, a question: should I change the topic to 'next up: 14 November General elections' or do you have another suggestion? I think "parliamentary and presidential elections" will make the topic three-line and will look rather ugly.

I'd say so, aye.

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

Once again, thank you for all this.

Honestly, who is still sticking with ITN?

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

So how long until Donev also starts his own party? 

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

(their third coalition partner from 2021 left with most of their state subsidies)

lol, how much money would that be?

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

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