by IRIS

Sofia, May 2013

On 12 May 2013 Bulgaria held early parliamentary elections, a month or two before the scheduled regular vote. This
happened because the centre-right government of the GERB party, led by Boyko Borisov, resigned in February after
mass street protests of hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians against high electricity prices, monopoly structures in the
economy, low standard of life and corrupt government. Given these developments, one would have expected the election
campaign, which officially started a month before the voting day, would focus on economic issues, the fight against
corruption and would witness a cleansing of the political spectrum of old faces and advent of new political actors with new
ideas and platforms more open to the citizenry.

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