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Eight Political Formations Stand Chances to Enter Next Parliament -
Survey

Sofia, September 3 (BTA) - Eight political formations stand
chances to enter the next Parliament, a national representative
survey of Mediana polling agency shows. The survey was conducted
 among 998 respondents between August 27 and September 1 and was
 presented at a Wednesday news conference hosted by the BTA
Press Club.
 
Six of the formations have exceeded the 4 per cent barrier: GERB
 (26.8 per cent of the respondents), the Bulgarian Socialist
Party (BSP) with 17.5 per cent, the Movement for Rights and
Freedoms (MRF) with 9.2 per cent, Bulgaria without Censorship
with 4.7 per cent, the Reformist Bloc with 4.4 per cent and the
Patriotic Front with 4.3 per cent. Ataka and ABV respectively
garnered 3.7 and 3.3 per cent. 
 
Mediana's Kolyu Kolev underscored that this is a snapshot of
public attitudes and it is early to make a stable forecast.
 
The survey shows increased pessimism in respect to the countryÒs
 economic and social development, as well as in regards to the
personal prospects of the voters. Three-fourths of the
respondents consider their material condition grave or
exceedingly bad. The pessimism also combines with political
negativism towards all parties and anything political, Kolev
said. One-third of the voters - 31 per cent - cannot quote a
single party they would want to see in government. This
practically means that when they were asked who they would want
to govern the contry they answered "No one!", he commented.
 
The two main formations - GERB and BSP - are not a desired
political alternative outside the circle of their own
supporters. According to the survey, 38 per cent of the
respondents think a return of GERB to power would be bad and
catastrophic, and 44 per cent think the same about a return of
the BSP to power.
 
Neither GERB nor the BSP can attract the hopes of the voters and
 people are beginning to look for their choice in the smaller
formations, Kolev explained. In his opinion, at this point data
show that to compile a working government will be a great
challenge before all political forces after the elections. The
idea that GERB may make a two-party coalition with the Reformist
 Bloc alone seems quite unlikely and there will have to be a
third, or maybe even a fourth formation, the sociologist thinks.
 It is quite possible that a spiral of political instability and
 new and new parliamentary elections may be the outcome of lack
of political wisdom.

 The ranking of politician ratings is topped by Sofia Mayor with
 47 per cent, followed by ABV leader Georgi Purvanov with 43 per
 cent and President Rosen Plevneliev with 37 per cent.
 
Respondents were also definitely skeptical about the
impartiality of the caretaker government and its desire to hold
fair elections./SN/BR

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