Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2014

Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2014

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Party Leader % Seats ± GERB Boyko Borisov 32.7 84 -13 KB Mihail Mikov 15.4 39 -45 DPS Lyutvi Mestan 14.8 38 +2 RB Radan Kanev 8.9 23 +23 PF Valeri Simeonov & Krasimir Karakachanov 7.3 19 +19 BBT Nikolay Barekov 5.7 15 New ATAKA Volen Siderov 4.5 11 -12 ABV Georgi Parvanov 4.1 11 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Georgi Bliznashki Independent Boyko Borisov GERB

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 October 2014 to elect the 43rd National Assembly.GERB remained the largest party, winning 84 of the 240 seats with around a third of the vote. A total of eight parties won seats, the first time since the beginning of democratic elections in 1990 that more than seven parties entered parliament.Boyko Borisov then became prime minister as head of a coalition with the Reformist Bloc and with outside support from the Patriotic Front and the Alternative for Bulgarian Revival.

After the 2013 election, the seat distribution was such that the new coalition government, composed of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) and led by Plamen Oresharski, had only half the seats in Parliament, and thus prospects of holding early elections were significant. Also, the Oresharski cabinet was confronted by a series of protests starting on 14 June 2013, in response to the election of Delyan Peevski as head of the Bulgarian state security agency DANS (State Agency for National Security).

Following the setback suffered by the BSP in the European Parliament election - having picked up 18.94% of the popular vote (down from 26.6% in 2013) - opposition parties called for early parliamentary elections. The leader of the DPS expressed his desire to have the government resign so that early elections can be scheduled for the end of 2014 or the middle of 2015.

On 10 June 2014 the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Sergei Stanishev, demanded the resignation of the government: "We cannot have the responsibility for the existence and actions of this government solely by ourselves." Following an agreement from the three largest parties (GERB, BSP and DPS) to hold early parliamentary elections for 5 October 2014, the cabinet was to resign by the end of July.