October 2 snap elections: First exit polls by “Alpha Research” show GERB-UDF win elections with 25.5% followed by WCC with 19.9%

First exit polls by "Alpha Research" polling agency at 19.00, show GERB-UDF wins the October 2 early parliamentary elections with 25.5%, followed by “We Continue the Change” (WCC) with 19.9%.

Next are:

Movement for rights and Freedoms (MRF) -14.4%

Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) - 10.2%

"Vazrazhdane" - 10%

"Democratic Bulgaria" - 7.9%

"There is Such People" - 4.2%

"Bulgaria Ascending" is below the 4% threshold for entering Parliament, with 2.9% of the votes, "Rise up Bulgaria" with 1.1%, VMRO with 0.3%.

The head of the polling agency, Boryana Dimitrova, told BNT that voters stand behind the main political forces and it is up to the politicians to look for opportunities to form a government. The vast majority of people want a government to be formed and compromises to be made, Dimitrova said.

The allocation of seats in the Parliament would be the following:

GERB-UDF - 66 seats

WCC - 52

MRF - 37

BSP - 27

Vazrazhdane - 26

Democratic Bulgaria - 21

"There is Such a People" - 11