Elections in Bulgaria: the former conservative prime minister Borisov is ahead of the exit polls

In Bulgaria, the party of former Prime Minister

, the conservative and populist

, is set to win early elections: this is according to the exit polls. 

Borisov would have gotten about 25.5% of the vote, according to demographic agencies Alpha Research and Market Links, while the former prime minister,

, and his reformist

party are second with a result that settles on a fork between 18.4 and 19.9%.

Also according to the exit polls, seven parties are likely to enter the Bulgarian Parliament, which will make the search for majorities and stability very difficult and complicated. 

Voter turnout, the fourth in less than a year and a half, was particularly low, at less than 40%.

Behind the two major parties is, with a percentage between 12.6 and 14.4%, the Turkish minority party

, an ally of Borisov and, according to its critics, together with him responsible for the endemic corruption suffered. for years from the country. 

The Socialist Party

, heir to the Communist Party and with openly pro-Russian positions on the war in Ukraine, is the fourth force, with a percentage between 10.2 and 11.2%.

Slightly lower is the support received from the ultra-nationalist formation "

" (Renaissance), also pro-Russian and which supports Bulgaria's exit from the European Union and NATO, with 10.0% of the votes. 

Parliament, which has 240 seats, also includes the pro-European alliance "

", with a percentage between 7.9 and 9.0%, which had offered itself as Petkov's partner in a possible executive.

The seventh party in the House will probably be the populist force "

" of the humorist

, which in the elections of July 2021 had become the most voted force, although now it has only obtained 4.2%, enough to exceed the minimum required threshold.

For Borisov, it will not be easy to find coalition partners;

among other things, while the endemic corruption had been the central theme of the previous campaign (this is the fourth vote in a year and a half) this time at the top of the voters' concerns were economic problems.

Bulgaria is the poorest country and considered the most corrupt in the EU, to which it has been a member since 2008, while since 2004 it has been part of NATO.

For a year and a half, the country's political class has failed to overcome the differences and the impasse.