Patriotic Front

Seven parties will enter Bulgaria's next Parliament, according to a survey of polling agency Exacta Research Group conducted on September 15-19.

Parties with a smaller electorate might yield surprises at Bulgaria's forthcoming snap vote on October 5, a sociology from polling agency Afis said.

Citing his pollster's survey dating end-August, Aslanov reminded the 4-5 parties nearling the threshold of 4% required for a bidder to make it into Parliament stand chances to improve their final output.

A political party called Nova Bulgaria ("New Bulgaria") removed the names of two MP candidates from its list for the October 5 early elections.

The organization sent a letter to public broadcaster BNR just a day after the Files Commission published online a list of candidates from all parties that were State Security (DS) agents during the Soviet-bloc era.

A total of 5 parties and coalitions are tipped to make it into Bulgaria's National Assembly after the October 5 early elections, data by polling agency Alpha Research [BG] shows.

The Movement For Rights and Freedoms (DPS) are standing every chance of getting 40 MP seats within the next legislature, an expert has predicted.

Prof. Mihail Konstantinov, formerly election watchdog member and ex-head of the state company counting the ballots, has put the DPS's projected result at 550 000 votes.

The three parties, which will enter Bulgaria's Parliament at the Oct. 5 early elections, are GERB, BSP and DPS, show two polls, published on Wednesday.

According to the Sova Haris agency poll, ordered by the BGNES wire service, only three parties will pass the 4% threshold - GERB, BSP and DPS. 

If elections were held today, the GERB party will not have a full majority, shows a poll of the Afis agency, owned by the Bulgarian Socialist Party member Yurii Aslanov.

According to the survey, done among 1200 adult Bulgarian citizens between August 16 and 21, even if GERB formed a coalition with the rightist Reformist Bloc, they will not have the necessary 121 seats in parliament. 

If elections for Bulgaria's parliament were held now, GERB would get 23% of the votes, shows a Gallup survey. 

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) would get nearly 16% and their former coalition partner from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) would get around 8%.