Boiko Borissov’s party the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (known by its Bulgarian abbreviation as GERB) would get 27 per cent of the vote were national parliamentary elections held today, polling agency MBMD said on June 25 2009.
 
On June 1, an MBMD poll said that GERB would get 23 per cent.
 
With elections on July 5 2009 approaching fast, support for the Bulgarian Socialist Party led by Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev is steady at 16 per cent, the same figure that emerged in the poll published on June 1.
 
Ahmed Dogan’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent, would get seven per cent, three per cent less than shown in the June 1 poll.
 
Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist Ataka would get six per cent, unchanged from June 1.
 
The Blue Coalition, the centre-right group dominated by Martin Dimitrov’s Union of Democratic Forces and Ivan Kostov’s Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, would get four per cent, the same as MBMD said on June 1.
 
The question of a governing coalition after the July 5 elections remains a vexed one, going by the results of a poll by the Centre for Analysis and Marketing released on June 22.
 
The agency concluded that current trends show that most people would not support a GERB-BSP coalition and there was little chance of a stable coalition being formed, leading the agency to conclude further elections would be held in autumn 2009.
 
A Barometer Info survey published on June 22 gave GERB 26 per cent, the BSP-dominated Coalition for Bulgaria 17 per cent, Dogan’s MRF 13 per cent and Ataka nine per cent.