Sofia: The Progressive Bulgaria coalition, led by former President Rumen Radev, is on track to secure a landslide victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, official partial results showed on Monday.
With 91.68 per cent of the votes counted, the Progressive Bulgaria coalition won 44.691 per cent, according to partial results published on the website of the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC), reported Xinhua news agency.
GERB-UDF coalition came second with 13.398 per cent of the vote, followed by We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) coalition with 13.210 per cent, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) with 6.233 per cent, and the Revival party with 4.354 per cent.
The other parties and coalitions that participated in Sunday’s elections failed to pass the 4 per cent threshold to enter the 240-seat parliament.
Calculators of the expected number of parliamentary seats published on the websites of bTV television and Dnevnik newspaper predict that Progressive Bulgaria would take 131 seats, followed by GERB-UDF with 39, PP-DB with 39, MRF with 18, and the Revival party with 13 seats.
The CEC has to release the official results, including seat distribution, by Thursday.
Under the constitution, the president will task the largest parliamentary group with forming a government. The parliament elects it by a simple majority.
This marks Bulgaria’s eighth parliamentary election in five years, triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s government in December 2025 amid mass protests over its economic policies, as well as parliament’s subsequent failure to form a new cabinet.
Zhelyakov’s government took power on January 16 last year after snap elections in October 2024.
Andrey Gurov was appointed as the caretaker prime minister in February this year by President Iliana Lotova.
(IANS)
