site.btaMRF Wins Local Council Elections in Pazardzhik

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) has won the local council elections in Pazardzhik, according to the municipal election commission, based on 100% processed of tally sheets.

The party received 17.13% of the vote. The second-largest political force is Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria with 11.75%, followed by Svoboda with 10.74%. In fourth place is BSP–United Left" with 7.42%, followed by the VMRO-BND coalition with 6.84%. GERB ranks sixth with 6.16% of the vote, followed by MIR with 3.86%, and Vazrazhdane with 3.80%, according to the final tally sheets.

On Sunday, voter turnout was 35.09%. Voters chose among 597 candidates competing for 41 seats on the Municipal Council.

The current vote in Pazardzhik took place after the Supreme Administrative Court annulled the municipal council elections held on October 29, 2023. This decision was made on July 17. At that time, the mayoral election was won by Continue the Change–Democratic Bulgaria (CC–DB) candidate Petar Kulenski.

Until the annulment of the municipal council elections, Kulenski governed with an unstable and shifting majority in the council, where CC–DB had only four councillors.

Following the court’s decision, the previous municipal council was reinstated - a body dominated by the group around former mayor Todor Popov.