site.btaUPDATED Gallup International Balkan: Six Parties Enter Parliament if Elections Were Held in Early March

Six parties would enter Parliament if elections were held in early March, according to a poll by Gallup International Balkan. Some 35.4% of Bulgarians reported that they will certainly vote in possible parliamentary elections, 3.1% those said that they will vote with "I support no one". 

The nationally representative survey, commissioned by the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), was conducted between February 29 and March 8, 2024, among 810 adult Bulgarians. 

If parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria in early March, the results would have been the following: 

• GERB-UDF: 26.4%,
• Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB): 19.6%, 
• Vazrazhdane: 14.8%, 
• Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF): 14.7%, 
• Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP): 10.6%,
• There Is Such a People (TISP): 5.1%.

The rest of respondents said they would mark "I support no one" (3.1%) or would vote for smaller political formations. 

The presidential institution had the highest approval among the three main institutions of political representation and power in the country: with 39.5% trust, and 43.9% distrust. The government received 15.1% trust and 75.2% distrust, while Parliament had 12.2% trust, and 80.2% distrust. The percentages up to one hundred are on account of those who could not answer.

In terms of trust in political figures and authorities, President Rumen Radev held the leading position. Leaders of political parties received trust proportional to the support of their parties. As usual, distrust in political figures and authorities in Bulgaria is much larger than the trust. The degree of awareness also varies, and there is always a group of varying size that hesitates in its response. The recent exception is usually the president, whose trust and distrust figures are close. Trust in outgoing Foreign Minister Mariya Gabriel was at 24.9% , and distrust is 52%. Some 16.9% expressed trust in outgoing Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, and 67.5% distrust. Trust in Parliament Chair Rosen Zhelyazkov was 14.2% and distrust was 56.9%.