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Gallup: Five Parties Would Enter Parliament if Elections Were Today

Sofia, July 13 (BTA) - Five parties would enter Parliament if
elections were held today, a Gallup monthly poll suggests. It
was carried out among 1,011 respondents between
June 26 and July 2.

The five parties are GERB (23.7 per cent), the Bulgarian
Socialist Party (15.2 per cent), the Movement for Rights and
Freedoms (7.3 per cent), the Reformist Bloc (4.7 per cent) and
the Patriotic Front (4 per cent). Another two parties, Ataka
(2.6 per cent) and ABV (1.4 per cent) also stand a chance.

Although support for the ruling GERB has eroded after the first
few months, the difference between GERB and the BSP remains at
500,000 potential votes, as many as in the last elections.

Gallup recalls that all eligible voters are polled.

With just weeks until the end of the political season and the
beginning of the campaign for the local elections, polling data
continue to look stable. In the past few months confidence in
the government has remained at 30 per cent and lack of
confidence at 60 per cent.

Confidence in Parliament is at around 20 per cent and lack of
confidence at around 70 per cent. Confidence in the President is
 at 30 per cent and lack of confidence at 55 per cent.

Currently, the level of confidence in the institutions is higher
 than it was under the Oresharski cabinet.

The first two to three months of the new government have
lessened public pessimism and negative assessments of the
institutions.

Forty per cent of respondents expect the economic situation in
the country to worsen. and 30 per cent who expect the situation
to remain unchanged. Some 15 per cent
expect the situation to improve.

In terms of household wealth, 50 per cent don't expect their
financial situation to change and another 30 per cent expect
their situation to worsen. Less than 10 per cent expect an
improvement.

Kristalina Georgieva and Yordanka Fandakova have the highest
approval ratings among politicians with 50 per cent and 45 per
cent respectively. Approval for Peter Moskov, Roumyana
Buchvarova, Lilyana Pavlova, Konstantin Penchev, Boyko Borissov,
 Rossen Plevneliev, Margarita Popova, Tomislav Donchev and
Ivailo Kalfin is between 25 and 35 per cent.

Forty-one per cent of people would like their local governance
to be overhauled completely, and 34 per cent would like to see
some change. Eleven per cent would not want to change their
local governance.

Those with the greatest desire for change include supporters of
opposition parties and mainly of the BSP. Forty-one per cent of
respondents would vote in the local elections and 17 per cent
are inclined to vote.

Twenty per cent of respondents say the country is changing for
the better and some 60 per cent that it is changing for the
worse. The ration seem more favourable compared with 2013 and
2014.