Politics of Bulgaria

Six parties would enter Bulgaria's next parliament with centre-right GERB leading with 36% of the vote if early parliamentary elections were held now, a new survey has shown.

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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. 

Center-right GERB's leader Boyko Borisov said his party would reject a proposal of President Rosen Plevneliev that military expenditures go up from 1.3 to 1.5%.

He told Bulgarian daily Presa that there was "nowhere to find BGN 200 M [more] for the army" when the country is facing shortage of funding for pensions or EU funding.

A former minister from center-right GERB has said her party does not rule out a scenario in which leader Boyko Borisov is not its PM-designate after the upcoming snap poll.

Conservative party GERB would win a general vote if it were held today, a polling agency announced Sunday.

The results of its recent survey show that a total of four parties are the most likely to enter Parliament.

The United Agrarians party will back center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria in October's early elections, the press office of GERB announced, Friday.

The leaders of the two parties Petya Stavreva and Boyko Borisov signed a political partnership agreement on Friday, according to which the United Agrarians support GERB's candidate-MPs in the upcoming elections.

Austrian daily Der Standard has published an article arguing that Boyko Borisov, former Bulgarian Prime Minister and current leader of the GERB party, is organizing a comeback.

The publication starts with comments on Bulgaria's caretaker government, stressing that it is conspicuous by its numerous layoffs and surprising resignations.

MEP and ex-journalist Nikolay Barekov's Bulgaria without Censorship has sealed a coalition agreement with Lider ("Leader") party, Barekov himself announced.

Lider, formally represented by chairman Kancho Filipov, is unofficially concentrated around energy tycoon Hristo Kovachki.

It is "obvious" that an alliance between conservative GERB and liberal DPS is in the making, socialist party leader Mihail Mikov said on Sunday.

Former Foreign Minister Solomon Passy has left liberal party NDSV (National Movement for Stability and Progress) and called for its dissolution.

According to a Twitter update of Passy, NDSV should be disbanded because it has accomplished its goals.