Country Focus - Bulgaria: An assessment of the July 5 parliamentary-elections outcome
Country Focus - Bulgaria: An assessment of the July 5 parliamentary-elections outcome
Emerging Markets Special Focus Reports
07 Ιουλίου 2009
With all of the votes in the July 5 general election having been counted, preliminary results showed that the centreright opposition party, the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), achieved a significant victory. It obtained a share of 39.71%, in a 20-year high turnout of 60.2%, faring much better than in the European Union elections earlier this year as well as the most recent opinion surveys conducted ahead of Sunday’s ballot.
