Listless Bulgarian voters turn back to Borissov as political stalemate continues – POLITICO

Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s party came out on top Sunday in Bulgaria’s seventh parliamentary election in four years — but once again lacks a clear majority to form a government.

Borissov’s GERB won 27 percent of the vote, with anti-corruption alliance We Continue the Change coming second on 14.5 percent. The pro-Russian Revival party finished third with 12.5 percent.

The results are a small improvement for GERB from June elections, in which it took 24.5 percent support. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, one of whose two factions is led by sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski, fell to fourth place. His party had been targeted by hackers in the run-up to the election.