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Eight Political Formations Stand Chances to Enter Next Parliament - Survey

Sofia, September 3 (BTA) - Eight political formations stand chances to enter the next Parliament, a national representative survey of Mediana polling agency shows. The survey was conducted among 998 respondents between August 27 and September 1 and was presented at a Wednesday news conference hosted by the BTA Press Club.

Six of the formations have exceeded the 4 per cent barrier: GERB (26.8 per cent of the respondents), the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) with 17.5 per cent, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) with 9.2 per cent, Bulgaria without Censorship with 4.7 per cent, the Reformist Bloc with 4.4 per cent and the Patriotic Front with 4.3 per cent. Ataka and ABV respectively garnered 3.7 and 3.3 per cent.

Mediana's Kolyu Kolev underscored that this is a snapshot of public attitudes and it is early to make a stable forecast.

The survey shows increased pessimism in respect to the country's economic and social development, as well as in regards to the personal prospects of the voters. Three-fourths of the respondents consider their material condition grave or exceedingly bad. The pessimism also combines with political negativism towards all parties and anything political, Kolev said. One-third of the voters - 31 per cent - cannot quote a single party they would want to see in government. This practically means that when they were asked who they would want to govern the country they answered "No one!", he commented.

The two main formations - GERB and BSP - are not a desired political alternative outside the circle of their own supporters. According to the survey, 38 per cent of the respondents think a return of GERB to power would be bad and catastrophic, and 44 per cent think the same about a return of the BSP to power.

Neither GERB nor the BSP can attract the hopes of the voters and people are beginning to look for their choice in the smaller formations, Kolev explained. In his opinion, at this point data show that to compile a working government will be a great challenge before all political forces after the elections. The idea that GERB may make a two-party coalition with the Reformist Bloc alone seems quite unlikely and there will have to be a third, or maybe even a fourth formation, the sociologist thinks. It is quite possible that a spiral of political instability and new and new parliamentary elections may be the outcome of lack of political wisdom.

The ranking of politician ratings is topped by Sofia Mayor with 47 per cent, followed by ABV leader Georgi Purvanov with 43 per cent and President Rosen Plevneliev with 37 per cent.

Respondents were also definitely skeptical about the impartiality of the caretaker government and its desire to hold fair elections./SN/BR

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