Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov’s party Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (known as GERB) would get 26 per cent of the vote if Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections scheduled for July 5 2009 were held today, according to the results of a survey by Barometer Info published on June 22.
 
The survey was done from June 19 to 21 among 1306 Bulgarians over 18 and therefore eligible to vote.
 
Barometer Info said that the Bulgarian Socialist Party-dominated Coalition for Bulgaria would get 17 per cent, Ahmed Dogan’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) 13 per cent and ultra-nationalists Ataka nine per cent.
 
In results published on June 22, Mediana said that if voter turnout was 58 per cent, GERB would get 30.1 per cent, the BSP 26 per cent, MRF 11.9 per cent, Ataka 10.3 per cent, the centre-right Blue Coalition 7.6 per cent, Simeon Saxe-Coburg’s National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP) 4.4 per cent, Yane Yanev’s Order Law and Justice (OLJ) party four per cent and LIDER with New Time 3.9 per cent.
 
On June 22, Bulgarian daily Telegraf quoted AFIS agency as predicting 27.9 per cent for GERB, 25 per cent for the Coalition for Bulgaria, MRF 15.1 per cent, Ataka 10.2 per cent, Blue Coalition 6.4 per cent, NMSP 4.2 per cent, LIDER with New Time four per cent and OLJ 3.7 per cent.
 
On July 5, a total of 6.9 million Bulgarians are eligible to vote, choosing 240 members of the country’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, through a mixture mainly of proportional representation with an element of majoritarian seats. Fourteen parties and four coalitions are contesting the elections.