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Bulgaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Maria Spirova
Maria Spirova*
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Leiden University, The Netherlands
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The year 2014 was another turbulent one for Bulgaria. Public protests against the Oresharski cabinet continued, leading up to the European Parliament elections on 12 May, which produced a political configuration quite different from the then-existing parliament. Following these results, a banking crisis and an unfavourable report from Brussels in June, the DPS threatened to withdraw political support from the cabinet. Ultimately, the political parties, with the aid of the President, agreed to call early elections in October 2014 and appoint an interim cabinet until then.The elections returned themost fragmented Bulgarian parliament ever, with eight parties surpassing the 4 per cent electoral threshold, and led to the formation of a centre-right coalition in November 2014.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015, pp. 44 - 53
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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