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Trend social survey: GERB with slim lead in front of We Continue the Change, ITN falls short of electoral threshold

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If early elections for parliament were to be held, GERB party would be first with 23.6% of the votes. The ruling We Continue the Change is second with 21.4%, indicates a survey by Trend agency, conducted from 5 to 12 July and commissioned by 24 Chasa newspaper. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms comes third with 10,7%, followed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party – 9.8%, Vazrazhdane – 9.6% and Democratic Bulgaria – 6.9%. The new party founded by former caretaker PM Stefan Yanev Bulgarski Vuzhod (Bulgaria on the rise) would garner 5.7% of the votes (the electoral threshold being 4%) and would enter the next parliament. Former coalition partner in the outgoing government There Is Such a People, ITN, marks a downturn, with 3.8% of the votes. 

The government of outgoing PM Kiril Petkov is ending its tenure with an approval rating of 22%, and 70% disapproval. 45% say they expect the economic situation in the country to grow worse next year, 15% expect an improvement. 



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