Sharjah24: Bulgarians vote Sunday for the third time this year with little hope that the latest general election will finally bring a stable government to fight the country's deadliest coronavirus wave.
"We must all vote but I'm also afraid that it will all be in vain... I don't have much hope," 62-year-old Milena Stoyanova said on the eve of the election, summing up the general gloom.
While many said they won't bother to go to the polling stations, 35-year-old finance expert Petar Angelov said he'll "definitely vote... for change" and "a better future".
After two previous elections in April and July returned fractured parliaments where parties failed to cobble together a coalition, will there be agreement now?
"I hope that political leaders learnt their lesson and that this will push them to negotiate," New Bulgarian University political science professor Antony Todorov said.
"We just cannot not have a government," said Boryana Dimitrova of the Alpha Research institute, highlighting the need to tackle the worst Covid-19 wave raging in the country.
Just over 23 percent of Bulgaria's population of 6.9 million people is fully vaccinated, the lowest rate across the European Union.
The interim administration failed to impose stricter measures and stop new infections and deaths from spiralling.
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