electoral system

After midnight parliamentary dramas, we woke up to yet another change in the electoral legislation, seemingly inspired and pushed through by the MRF. On the one hand, this is another lesson for small urban parties about how much power a small political force can wield without interfering with GERB, on the other hand, it is an opportunity …

Author: Alexander Mihaylov Recently, the topic of party subsidies has been on the agenda again. All parties that have independently appeared in parliamentary elections and won over 1% of the vote receive a subsidy, while for coalitions this threshold is 4%. After the last parliamentary elections, of course, all parties represented in parliament receive a subsidy …

Author: Kaloyan Pravov In 2016, the parliament passed an unprecedented law that made voting mandatory, thus revoking the voting rights of all citizens. Although the texts providing for criminal sanctions for non-voters were repealed, voting is still “mandatory” by law. This year, the political class decided to bring a new dose of confusion …

To participate in elections, you must register in advance. This is what we recommend from the Bulgarian Libertarian Society in a special report prepared by Kaloyan Pravov. It examines the main problems of the Bulgarian electoral process such as controlled voting, electoral tourism, dead souls on the lists and the potential for manipulation of the real electoral vote through …