The 2014 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria

Kostadinova, Petia; Popova, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2015.01.009

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“…In Bulgaria, snap elections were organized in 2014 without producing a clear governmental party. While GERB managed the performance of winning three elections in a row (2009, 2013, 2014), the highly fragmented legislative results and the low turnout in fact reflected an overall public disillusionment with the political class (Kostadinova and Popova ). Similarly, in Romania, the most recent 2014 presidential elections proved to be a challenging test for the two largest parties of the country.…”

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Political Blackmail, Institutional Infighting, and Electoral Politics: The Fate of Governing Parties during the Great Recession (2008‐12) in Romania and Bulgaria

Kostadinova

Giurcanu

2015

Politics & Policy

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Center‐right parties in government in Romania and Bulgaria navigated the economic downturns associated with the Great Recession (2008‐12), and introduced austerity policies, yet had different electoral fates. While in Romania, the Democratic Liberal Party experienced a dramatic loss at the December 2012 elections, in Bulgaria, the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria topped the May 2013 vote. In this article, we analyze these divergent outcomes, taking into account institutional configurations, strength of governing parties, and economic conditions. We argue that the electoral effects of harsh economic policies are conditioned by differences in the institutional aspect of governmental “clarity of responsibility” during the peaks of the recession. These differences in institutional clarity become then key factors in understanding the electoral fates of the center‐right parties in these governments. Related Articles Related Media Al JazeeraEnglish. . “Bulgaria Elections Gripped by Deadlock.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8HvL5Bb5Q DW (English). . “Corruption Big Issue in Romanian Elections | Journal Reporters.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhmYhAP0zak

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Political Blackmail, Institutional Infighting, and Electoral Politics: The Fate of Governing Parties during the Great Recession (2008‐12) in Romania and Bulgaria

Kostadinova

Giurcanu

2015

Politics & Policy

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“…All other deputies of GERB and Ataka deliberately abstained from the vote in order to boycott Oresharski's election (Karasimeonov 2013a, 2-3;Kostadinova and Popova 2014;Avramov 2015, 303-4). Even after this investiture vote, Ataka backed the Oresharski government on various occasions and did not support a vote of no confidence initiated by GERB (Karasimeonov 2013b, 8;Kostadinova and Popova 2015). Nevertheless, Ataka is not considered an official support party for the minority government because there was no formal public agreement between Ataka and the ruling parties.…”

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“…Instead, Borisov formed a minority coalition with the centre-right Reformist Bloc (RB) and the nominally social democratic Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (ABV). This coalition was officially supported by the other radical right party in parliament, the PF (Karasimeonov 2014b, 2-3;Kostadinova and Popova 2015). In the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections, the government had lost significant public support, prompting the ABV and parts of the RB to withdraw from the coalition.…”

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“…VMRO was re-established in 1990 and since then has been part of the nationalist spectrum of Bulgarian politics (Krasteva 2016, 179). Similar to Ataka, the PF identifies minorities and immigrants as its main enemies (Krasteva 2016), but it tried to position itself as a more moderate, radical right alternative (Kostadinova and Popova 2015). At the same time, however, Simeonov criticised Ataka's cooperation with the mainstream when it supported the GERB minority government (Krasteva 2016).…”

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Kossack

2023

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In the past three decades, radical right parties had the opportunity to directly influence political developments from the highest public office in many post-communist Central and Eastern European countries. Oliver Kossack provides the first comprehensive study on government formation with radical right parties in this region. Even after the turn of the millennium, some distinct features of the post-communist context persist, such as coalitions between radical right and centre-left parties. In addition to original empirical insights, the time-sensitive approach of this study also advances the discussion about concepts and methodological approaches within the discipline.

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“…The elections of May 2013 were the first won by an incumbent party, yet GERB did not have a viable coalition partner, and another minority cabinet was not feasible. Following some tense procedural negotiations, a coalition government was formed between BSP and DPS, which held 120 of the seats in the National Assembly and won the investiture vote with the tacit approval of Ataka (Kostadinova and Popova 2013). The cabinet was short-lived, however, and new parliamentary elections were held a year later.…”

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Bulgarian political parties and European integration: from anticommunism to Euroscepticism

Stoyanov

Kostadinova

2020

European Politics and Society

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In this article, we review the political developments in Bulgaria since the fall of communism in 1989, including the process of European integration that it underwent. We pay a particular attention to the positions that political parties in the country take with respect to the country's membership in the European Union (EU). The place of the EU in the profiles of Bulgarian political parties is assessed through quantitative data available from the Manifesto Project. The qualitative discussion of the extent of European Union support within each of the major players in Bulgaria's party system adds to the quantitative data and provides the details on the specifies of Bulgarian socio-economic and sociocultural Euroscepticism. We conclude that although Bulgarian political elite continues to have a pro-European orientation, Bulgarian Euroscepticism is already part of the party competition, and it is here to stay.

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The 2014 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria

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Political Blackmail, Institutional Infighting, and Electoral Politics: The Fate of Governing Parties during the Great Recession (2008‐12) in Romania and Bulgaria

Political Blackmail, Institutional Infighting, and Electoral Politics: The Fate of Governing Parties during the Great Recession (2008‐12) in Romania and Bulgaria

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Bulgarian political parties and European integration: from anticommunism to Euroscepticism

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