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Fighting crime, corruption should be Bulgarian Government's top priorities - poll

Wed, Sep 02 2009 10:06 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Fighting crime, corruption should be Bulgarian Government's top priorities - poll

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Seventy-three per cent of Bulgarians want to see Prime Minister Boiko Borissov's Government crack down on crime and 71 per cent want to see corruption and misuse of public money curbed, according to an opinion survey by Mediana agency published in Bulgarian-language mass-circulation daily Trud on September 2 2009.

Seventy per cent want to see Bulgaria's image abroad improved, while 52 per cent wanted the Cabinet to move against the economic crisis and to ease joblessness, according to the Mediana poll.

Going by the poll, indications are that in its second month in office after being sworn in after the July 2009 national parliamentary elections, Borissov's party, the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (known as GERB) would now win 46 per cent of votes if elections were held today. This is about six per cent higher than the party's result at the July elections.

Sergei Stanishev's Bulgarian Socialist Party has again slightly shed support, with the Mediana poll giving it 12 per cent, Volen Siderov's ultra-nationalist party Ataka would get five per cent, Ahmed Dogan's Movement for Rights and Freedoms four per cent, and the centre-right Blue Coalition and Yane Yanev's right-wing Order Law and Justice party 3.4 per cent each.

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