{"id":4238,"date":"2022-10-05T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T10:39:51","slug":"better-luck-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=4238&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Better Luck Next Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">05.10.2022<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On 2 October 2022, Bulgaria hold its consecutive early general elections. These were the fifth elections for the past 18 months with 3 parliamentary elections and a presidential election in 2021 alone. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with 7 parties in the 240 seat parliament: the often described as populist centre-right GERB (25.3%), the liberal We Continue the Change (20.2%), the so-called Turkish-minority party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (13.8%), the pro-Russian and nationalist Revival (10.2%), the centre-left Bulgarian Socialist Party (9.3%), the centre-right\/liberal\/Green coalition Democratic Bulgaria (7.5%) and the new pro-Russian, opportunist party Bulgarian Rise (4.6%).<\/p>\n<p>The expectations before the elections were for four possible options for forming a government: (1) Pro-Western and anti-corruption, (2) Anti-corruption but not pro-Western, (3) Pro-Western but not anti-corruption or (4) Neither pro-Western nor anti-corruption.<\/p>\n<p>From the initial reactions of the party leaders it seems that it will be very challenging task to form a government. Should this parliament fail to produce a government, there would likely be new elections in early spring of 2023. President Rumen Radev would then appoint a new caretaker government under his control.<\/p>\n<p>The new OSIS policy brief provides information and context of the early elections in Bulgaria on 2 October 2022, the options for government formation and proposes some takeaways from the perspective of civil society and the current geopolitical context.<\/p>\n<p>You can find here the policy brief\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/osis.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Bulgaria-Elections-Oct2022_EuPI_Policy-Brief_.pdf\">Better Luck Next Time? The Early General Elections in Bulgaria on 2 October 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 October 2022, Bulgaria hold its consecutive early general elections. These were the fifth elections for the past 18 months with 3 parliamentary elections and a presidential election in 2021 alone. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with 7 parties in the 240 seat parliament: the often described as populist centre-right GERB (25.3%), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[291,288],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eupi-news","tag-civil-society","tag-public-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}