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Slovakia Turns the Page on Russian Fossil Fuels – COMMENTARY
21 October 2025
It appears Boyko Borisov has lost his first election in 13 years, but will the new challenger and former showman, Slavi Trifonov, be able to make a coherent government in line with the anti-corruption movement that propelled him to dethrone the leader, or will politics in Bulgaria be a similar song in a different key?
Sunday’s elections in Bulgaria seemed to be important for two reasons.
Firstly, they were the response to the anti-Borisov’s opposition claims that elections under the former prime minister’s power were neither free nor fair. For this reason, the short-lived parliament adopted new election legislation that not only increased the number of polling sections abroad but also introduced machine voting, which substantially sped up the counting process.
The caretaker government not only implemented the election law but also took active measures against vote-buying — a constant practice in Bulgarian elections since the early 1990s.
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