The short answer to the question of why we are going to the seventh early elections is - we can't broadcast government. This is what the sociologist from "Alpha Research" commented to BNT. Boryana Dimitrova.
"Because there is a sharp confrontation, a sharp opposition in the parliament and the impossibility of forming coalitions along two main lines. One line is prosta-quo parties versus pro-reform parties. However, the other line is pro-European versus anti-European parties. These two sides do not necessarily coincide. We have, for example, the parties that are anti-status quo - the reformist PP-DB, which are pro-European, but are against the status quo embodied by GERB, which ruled Bulgaria for 11 years before 2021, when the protests began. There are parties that are against GERB, but they are frankly pro-Russian parties, anti-Western, so these two key divisions in Bulgarian politics - the status quo and pro-reformist - pro-Western and anti-Western parties, we have a very sharp polarization and no connecting lines can be drawn between them. "
There are not enough common lines between the Bulgarian parties, Boryana Dimitrova believes, and explains why the winner of the elections since 2021 has not been able to form a cabinet and govern:
After the split in the DPS, another dividing line is added in society. According to Boryana Dimitrova, each of the two formations will have less weight in the parliament if both enter.
There is nostalgia and strong anti-European sentiments in Bulgarian society, Dimitrova points out. And he adds that these sentiments have their ceiling, because "Revival" fails to break 14-15% support. These parties have radical language, and a large part of society does not accept such language. And more: these parties do not offer an alternative.
The more the parliament becomes fragmented, the more difficult it becomes to broadcast a government, according to Boryana Dimitrova.