Vanya Grigorova can become a deputy before the final of the case for the mayoral elections (Overview)

Vanya Grigorova may turn out not to be a mayor, but an MP half a year after she disputed the results of the local elections in Sofia. On November 5, 2023, she lost in the runoff in the capital to Vasil Terziev by less than 5,000 votes.

On Monday, the former trade unionist and current municipal councilor officially confirmed that she will appear in the parliamentary elections on June 9. Already a week ago, “24 Chasa” reported that Grigorova’s project may be ahead of all the others whose birth was expected this year, and she will throw herself into the battle for the 50th parliament.

However, she did not reveal yesterday with whom she will appear in the elections on June 9. It is only known that it will be a left-wing project outside the BSP, but it was not yet clear whether it would be “The Left!”.

In the mayoral vote last fall, “Positano” reluctantly supported the trade unionist. The left unification became possible after the capital structure of the socialists negotiated it themselves and actually put the headquarters in front of a fait accompli. Now such interaction is impossible.

The last ones were finished last weekend

Grigorova’s conversations with “The Left!” to Maya Manolova, but then without result

A week ago, in front of “24 Chasa”, she regretted that there would be no way to have a broad left unity for the vote in June.

So Grigorova will have to look for other formations whose registration to use for the elections. It is expected that this will be a coalition of smaller left-wing parties that will recognize the policies and messages of the current municipal councilor. Otherwise, he will step on the foundation of his association “Solidary Bulgaria”.

With witch

the left-wing voting lanes in June may become three

The CEC accepts documents for parties and coalitions to participate in the elections until 5 pm on Wednesday, so there is one day to clarify the formation with which Grigorova will appear. And whether they will join forces with Manolova.

Our country resembles Italy from the late 1980s with one-day governments and political chaos in which only the interests of the mafia are unshakable. Facade democracy combined with a market dictatorship of the Latin American type. They euthanized parliamentarism, tore apart even the constitution because of opportunistic interests and assemblies.

All kinds of voices are heard in this bacchanalia, but not the voice of the true constitutional majority – the working people who, on top of that, pay the bill. A new build-up will once again leave them at the bottom of the managers’ priorities.

This is how Grigorova explained on Facebook on Monday morning why she is participating in the elections.

In the first round of local elections in Sofia, she collected 80,875 votes – more than Stefan Yanev’s party “Bulgarian Rise” in the last parliamentary elections (April 2, 2023). Then Yanev took 77,420 votes, or 3.06% – percentage below the barrier to entry. “There is such a people” surpassed it with its 104 thousand votes, or 4.11%.

This means that if, after two months, Grigorova succeeds in mobilizing most of her last year’s voters in the capital and raises even just 1,000 in the remaining constituencies, she will easily pass the 4 percent barrier for parliament.

The question, however, is whether the bill will pass in Sofia, since in the local vote the structures of the BSP still worked for it, there was also the support of the “Levitsa!” and apparently made a relatively expensive and modern campaign. Now there will be no strong party structures in the country to work for her. She achieved a far lower result alone in the 2019 European elections, when she ran as an independent candidate and won less than 10,000 votes, or 0.48%.

Grigorova’s new left track will be a problem in the elections not only for the BSP, but also for ITN, the sociologist from “Trend” Evelina Slavkova predicted a day ago in an interview for “24 Chasa”. In the last elections, Slavi Trifonov’s party was on the brink, with exit polls initially leaving it out of parliament. And before that they were relegated from the 48th NS.

If she still manages to collect about 100,000 votes – as many as have been enough to enter the parliament in recent years – Grigorova can become an MP even before the cases with which she disputes the result of the mayoral elections in Sofia are over. The court ordered to check all the sectional records and the experts found numerous errors in them. In fact, Terziev was more damaged than Grigorova, according to the expertise so far. The next case is scheduled for April 26. If the court makes a decision, it will be at least a week before it is announced – i.e. on the very eve of the 2 in 1 vote, and this is also the first instance and there will eventually be an appeal to the upper one.

Cornelia Ninova is also calling for a broad left-wing unification, and on May 1, she is gathering more than 25 other small left-wing and patriotic parties, civil associations and non-governmental organizations with which to form a new front – an alternative to the current government. “We don’t know yet, there is mixed information. Here from “The Left!” they are leaving, then “Stand up, BG” they have left”, said Ninova succinctly when asked how many left-wing formations she expected to appear in the upcoming elections.