site.btaSix Parties Would Enter Parliament if Elections Were Held Now - Market Links Survey

If elections were held today, six parties would enter parliament, according to a nationwide survey on public and political attitudes, funded and conducted jointly by bTV and the Market Links polling agency in November, as announced by the agency on Thursday. The survey was conducted among 1,009 adult respondents across the country via face-to-face interviews and online questionnaires between December 3 and 7.

GERB-UDF is the leading political force with 17% support. Second is Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) with 14.7%. Third place goes to Vazrazhdane with 9.3% support, while Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF)-New Beginning takes fourth place with 9.1%. MECh comes fifth with 5.3% support, and BSP-United Left comes sixth with 4.7%.

According to Market Links, significant changes have occurred in public attitudes, reflected in declining confidence and weakening electoral support for the ruling parties and their political leaders. GERB has seen the biggest decline, with "proportionally greater damage" suffered by MRF-New Beginning, with a loss of 5% of the vote representing one third of the support received in October.

Market Links also points out that BSP-United Left is hovering around the 5% mark and suffering serious negative consequences from the government, while There Is Such a People (TISP) seems to have the lowest support recorded in a survey since its formation.

A higher result is reported for CC-DB, attributed to the high mobilization of their supporters and the fact that higher voter turnout in future elections would mean a partial recovery of electoral losses from the 2024 elections.

The sociological agency also points out that the levels of public trust in the Bulgarian government and parliament remain close to historically lowest. Attitudes towards the government have shown a significant negative trend over the past two months. Compared to the beginning of the cabinet in January 2025, trust has decreased by almost 10 percentage points, while the proportion of Bulgarian citizens who distrust the executive branch has increased by 18%, according to the data.

Trust in parliament stands at 12%, while distrust stands at 70%.

President Rumen Radev remains the only figure whose approval rating significantly exceeds disapproval.

The latest results indicate increased activity and relatively high levels of readiness to vote in elections. According to Market Links, it appears that the level of the April 2021 elections, when 51% of eligible voters cast their ballots, could be reached "now".

The agency points to a broad opposition in Bulgarian society against the country's model of governance. Over 70% of citizens support the wave of protests in the country, while 16% are of the opposite opinion.

Over 70% of Bulgarian society also opposes the country's draft budgets for 2026, which were the immediate cause for the protests, according to the analysis. According to the data, 56% of citizens favour a government resignation, while 26% are against it.