Victory is Not Enough: "We Continue the Change" will Depend on Complex Negotiations

The youngest political group, "We Continue the Change", won the Bulgarian parliamentary elections (surprisingly against the background of sociologists' forecasts), but it is facing difficult negotiations to form a government in the new 47th National Assembly and the final success of the debutants will depend on them. With their vote, the voters showed that they expect results by redirecting their support from others from the so-called "protest parties" that failed to nominate a cabinet in two parliaments to join the reunification of former caretaker ministers.

A coalition will need at least four partners, with "Democratic Bulgaria", "BSP" and "There Is Such a People" remaining to be discussed after election night. According to the latest data and before the votes from abroad, they have a total of 138 seats (see chart). And decisive for the successful implementation of the first term may be the support of the party of Slavi Trifonov, who significantly announced that he will behave as before.

After the third vote of the year and record low turnout (39.1%), parties in parliament increased to seven. A nationalist formation returned to it - "Vazrazhdane" (which built its campaign on anti-wax messages) and "Stand up. BG! We are coming!"

The investments of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) with the participation of the sanctioned under "Magnitsky law" MP Delyan Peevski provided the party with a third position before BSP. The party announced its readiness to talk to everyone about future governance, but so far only the GERB leader had allowed the possibility of negotiations with them before the elections. Boyko Borissov spoke on election night from the position of first in terms of results, although the data already showed otherwise.