Bulgaria’s CEC announces seat distribution after April 19 parliamentary election
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the seat distribution in the 52nd National Assembly, with the full list of MPs set to be made public next week.
Progressive Bulgaria were allocated 131, as former president Roumen Radev’s decision to step down early as head of state in January, with a year left on his second and final term, gave his electoral coalition the first outright majority in Parliament since the Union of Democratic Forces won 137 seats in 1997.
Former Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF electoral coalition were allocated 39 seats, a sharp drop from the 69 MPs it had in the outgoing 51st National Assembly.
The We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (WCC-DB) electoral coalition will have 37 MPs in the next Parliament, unchanged from the current legislature.
The predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms – New Beginning, led by Magnitsky Act-sanctioned Delyan Peevski, will receive 21 seats, down from 30.
Pro-Russian Vuzrazhdane will be the smallest group in Parliament, dropping to 12 MPs from 35.
CEC will finalise the list of MPs elected no later than April 27, after candidates who were elected in more than one electoral district choose which seat they will take, while some candidates initially deemed elected may inform the commission that they did not want to take up their seats.
The CEC also made public the final turnout figures for the April 19 election, which were 51.11 per cent, up from 38.94 per cent in the October 2024 elections.
(Photo: parliament.bg)
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