{"id":1384220,"date":"2026-04-20T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-bulgaria-a-pro-russian-party-gains-a-majority-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:39:29","slug":"in-bulgaria-a-pro-russian-party-gains-a-majority-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-bulgaria-a-pro-russian-party-gains-a-majority-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"In Bulgaria, a pro-Russian party gains a majority in parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"310\"><strong>The pro-Russian Progressive Bulgaria party has won the parliamentary elections in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bulgaria<\/span><\/span> , forming a single-party majority in parliament, according to preliminary results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"368\"> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">News.Bg<\/span><\/span> reports this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"515\"> As of 11:00 AM, the Central Election Commission had processed 96.41% of the votes. According to the data, Progressive Bulgaria received 44.7% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"674\"> The GERB party took second place with 13.4%. The PP-DB bloc came in third with 12.8%. DPS (6.6%) and Vozrozhdenie (4.3%) followed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"940\"> Progressive Bulgaria has received preliminary results for 131 seats in the 240-seat parliament, allowing it to independently form a majority (at least 121 seats are needed). The other parties have distributed their seats as follows: GERB and PP-DB have 39 each, DPS has 18, and Revival has 13.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"942\" data-end=\"1097\"> This is the country&#8217;s eighth parliamentary election since 2021. The vote took place on April 19, and the interim government oversaw the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1099\" data-end=\"1210\"> The final results will determine the composition of the new parliament, which will form the government and adopt the state budget.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-Russian Progressive Bulgaria party has won the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria , forming a single-party majority in parliament, according to preliminary results. News.Bg reports this. As of 11:00 AM, the Central Election Commission had processed 96.41% of the votes. According to the data, Progressive Bulgaria received 44.7% of the votes. The GERB party took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":499914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1384220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}