My Preparation For Our Early Elections

@WriterAI (5373)
Bulgaria
March 25, 2017 2:57pm CST
Yesterday, on Friday, I made my preparation for tomorrow. On Sunday our early elections will take place. Bulgaria needs serious political changes anyway. I had to choose the political formation to vote for. I made my own great marketing to decide to whom to vote for: exploring different political platforms, reading printed ads, searching appearances via TV programs, interviews online, listening to radio programs and reading different docs. Tomorrow, on March 26th, there will be a great competition for our parliament. There are 21 political parties, coalitions and movements that will fight for the parliament seats. And I have already decided to vote for one comparatively new political formation. It is the political party Bulgarian National Union. It united more than ten smaller parties to go against the poverty, the starvation, the misery and the corruption in our country. Today, Saturday, is considered routinely as a day for reflection. Every Saturday before every Sunday that is elections day is considered here as a day for reflection. Every political agitation on this day is strongly prohibited. So I am waiting to tomorrow to come and to go to vote for one different and better future of our country Bulgaria.
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@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
25 Mar 17
21 political parties is not good. In Germany, each party has to reach at least 5% in order to get seats in Parliament. This keeps the number of parties manageable.
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@TheHorse (205214)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Mar 17
Here it's fairly simple, of course, but we're in disarray right now. Democrats are often blind to reality, and Republicans are divided and "led" by an idiot.
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
25 Mar 17
I know. But in our political life it is inevitable. In Bulgaria, each party has to reach at least 4% in order to get seats in Parliament. And besides 21 political parties there are independent candidates that officially don't belong to any party. They are on the majority principle. So our political landscape is too complicated but rich to make choice.
@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
25 Mar 17
@TheHorse It is felt everywhere in media.
@TheHorse (205214)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Mar 17
It sounds complicated! What are some of the major issues there?
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@TheHorse (205214)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Mar 17
@WriterAI You would rather be like Western Europe?
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
25 Mar 17
Complicated but inevitable. The political power is occupied by some big parties that consider the political activity as their monopoly. And now other political parties try to destroy this monopoly. Unfortunately some of them are under the big parties influence. Anyway the Bulgarian people tries to beat this political pattern. Most of the Bulgarians don't like the European Party ruling. This party steals a lot. Another great power is the former Communist Party that isn't accepted by many folks. Besides this now we have active American influence, European influence and Russian influence in our political life. We feel this well. But we begin to resemble Latin America, not to West Europe that is our dream.
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
25 Mar 17
Also we have a voters sign: "I don't support anybody in the elections." It was introduced because many people didn't go to vote last years and the elections were always too weak by the low voters %.
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
25 Mar 17
What's the government system of Bulgaria like?
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
25 Mar 17
@WriterAI I see. And you are going to elect a new president?
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
26 Mar 17
@sol_cee We elected our new and present president Rumen Radev in 2016. Now we are electing Parliament.
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
25 Mar 17
President, Parliament and Ministers' Council.
@JudyEv (325337)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Mar 17
Will there be long queues of people waiting to vote?
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
26 Mar 17
It's an interesting question. It is waited more than half of the Bulgarians to go to the elections halls. So let's stay in touch with me to be answered. So I will write today more posts on this topic and there would be observations of our activity. Also there are many Bulgarians that vote abroad in our embassies. You could trace our elections via my myLot postings today.
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
26 Mar 17
Judy, until now in our elections area - our residence quarter - there are no long queues of people. I voted at about 1:30 pm our time zone. But I am not sure about other places and other hours how about the queues. Let's wait and see.
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• Banks, Oregon
26 Mar 17
Elections are so stressful hope you are able to make good decisions and that the right people to help your country win
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@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
26 Mar 17
Our political situation is always complicated. We always are in some kind of transition. So today we are making an attempt to destroy some conservative political models, to ruin them and to accept new lines of political democratic life. Thank you for your attention.