86.4% in our country support the protests of young doctors and medical specialists. The opposite opinion is held by 7.3%. 5.8% are not familiar with it, and there is also a small share of those who find it difficult to answer. This is a practical public consensus, reports "Measure".
The numbers were exclusively presented in the show „Vopros na meara“ on „YouTube“ – in a discussion by researchers Parvan Simeonov, Yanitsa Petkova and Svetlin Tachev.
The data is from an independent quick telephone survey among 800 adult Bulgarians. The survey is a sociological experiment to check the attitude towards the different types of protests in our country. The aim was typological representativeness, not exhaustiveness regarding all possible protests. The field is in mid-June - when all types of protests had already developed.
The protests against the euro, for example, are more visibly polarizing, although with significantly overwhelming support - 56.3% support them, while 36.2% do not support them. 3.8% are not familiar enough to form an opinion, and 3.7% admit that they cannot judge. The question is asked as broadly as possible in order to assess attitudes towards different topics, and not just towards specific protest organizers.
Protests for judicial reform, for example, also elicit automatic support, although not at the level of those regarding doctors. 75.2% support them, 8.7% do not support them, 15.1% go to the “intermediate“ option “not familiar” and this also shows a degree of ambiguity in the assessment, and 1% do not know what to answer or cannot assess. It is possible that the long-standing principled attitude towards the lack of justice in our society and the traditional distrust of institutions play an additional role here. That is why, with regard to judicial reform or young doctors, opinions are almost one-sided, while with protests against the euro, for example, the bright politicization of the topic has caused two types of opinions to clash. Something similar has happened with the politicization of the public transport strike in Sofia.
The case of the public transport strike in Sofia is curious. It is rather supported throughout the country, but in Sofia itself it is the opposite - most opinions in the capital are against the strike. The national picture is: 47.7% support, 38.2% do not support, 12.2% do not have enough information to form an opinion, and 1.9% cannot answer. In Sofia itself, however, the picture is different: 38.1% support, 50.3% do not support, 10.3% do not have enough information to form an opinion, and 1.3% cannot answer. Whether the reasons are political or related to everyday convenience, the fact is that opinions differ.
The data is from an independent telephone survey by the sociological agency “Myara“, conducted between June 12 and 16, 2025 among 800 adult Bulgarian citizens. The maximum standard deviation is ±3.5 at 50% shares. 1% of the sample is equal to about 54,000 people.