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Bulgarian Election Shows Need to Clean House
Blog on what the Bulgarian elections will and won't change
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It looks as though the center-right Citizens for European Development party won Bulgaria's early elections, the same party that triggered the vote by resigning from government amid protests in February. So has anything changed?
The short answer is yes. The elections show that Bulgarians have lost all faith in a corrupt elite, and the next government -- whatever shape it takes -- is likely to be weak and unstable.
