Boyko Borisov’s tenure as prime minister ended in May 2021 amid massive demonstrations over allegations of corruption. Now the political landscape is shorn of big parties
, the Bulgarian capital, like to bring their kids to the Museum of Illusions, where they can take distorted photos of themselves in strange mirrors and stare at optical illusions until their eyes cross. As Bulgaria prepared for its fifth general election in two years on April 2nd, voters could be forgiven for thinking that their country’s politics were largely an illusion too.
Ruslan Stefanov of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, a think-tank in Sofia, says that about a quarter of the electorate support political parties “that nowadays call themselves patriotic but are essentially pro-Russian”. The other parties may dub themselves the “Euro-Atlantic coalition”. But they are divided over how, or even whether, to tackle high-level corruption.
Members of the same government helped broker an arrangement under which Lukoil, a Russian oil company with a strong presence in Bulgaria, continues to import and refine oil from Russia and then to export much of it for eventual use in Ukraine. Russia gets export revenues from the oil, says a person involved in the deal. The arrangement is acceptable to the Russians, who calculate “that if they did not sell the oil to Ukraine, someone else would.
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