Krassimir Karakachanov’s
ultra-nationalist VMRO party’s executive met on May 13 to discuss options for its approach to the July parliamentary elections, including standing alone or in a coalition with like-minded formations.
Ultra-nationalist parties won no seats in
Bulgaria’s April 4 parliamentary elections.
All other parliaments from 2005 onwards had included
ultra-nationalist parties, and in Boiko Borissov’s third cabinet, the “United Patriots” were the government minority partner.
The April elections saw VMRO come the closest, at 3.64 per cent, to surpassing the threshold of a four per cent share of votes to win seats in the National Assembly.
Kostadin Kostadinov’s pro-Russian Vuzrazhdane party got 2.45 per cent, the Volya-National Front for the Salvation of
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