Poll: GERB-UDF 24%, We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria 13.5%
Were Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections now, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB-UDF coalition would get 24 per cent and the reformist We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria coalition 13.5 per cent support among those who would vote, according to a poll by the Market Links agency, the results of which were released on February 6.
The agency said that both had a small surge in support, GERB as the centre of the governing coalition and WCC-DB as the most visible opposition.
Pro-Kremlin opposition party Vuzrazhdane has had a slight drop in support, putting it at 11.4 per cent.
Magnitsky Act-sanctioned Delyan Peevski’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms – New Beginning has 9.6 per cent support and the Ahmed Dogan loyalists of the Democracy, Rights and Freedoms group 7.3 per cent.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party – United Left coalition has 5.8 per cent and populist ITN 4.3 per cent, while populist-nationalist Mech is below the threshold of a four per cent share of the vote to win seats in the legislature.
The Rossen Zhelyazkov government has 27 per cent approval, the highest of any administration in the past year, and 40 per cent disapproval.
The National Assembly has a disapproval rating of 66 per cent and an approval rating of 11 per cent.
Market Links’s Dobromir Zhivkov said that the sustained distrust in Parliament was the result of the inability of the Bulgarian political class to solve the tasks facing it.
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Natalia Kiselova, has an approval rating of 31 per cent and a disapproval rating of 29 per cent.
The Bulgarian politician with the highest approval rating continues to be head of state President Roumen Radev, 45 per cent against 28 per cent disapproval.
Zhelyazkov has an approval rating of 27 per cent and a disapproval rating of 41 per cent.
Among political party leaders, Borissov has the highest approval rating, at 24 per cent. In second place is Vuzrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov, 18 per cent, and in third place is ITN leader Slavi Trifonov, 17 per cent.
Among all politicians, the one with the highest disapproval rating is Peevski, 83 per cent.
The poll, funded and carried out jointly by bTV and Market Links, was done among 1008 people over 18 in Bulgaria from January 25 to February 2 2025, using the methods of direct personal interviews and online polling.
(Photo: parliament.bg)
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