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Democracy goes digital: Social media and Bulgaria’s Gen Z protests
Standing in her closet, folding clothes and speaking into a spatula suspended from the ceiling as a prop microphone, Bulgarian influencer and self-declared “Gen Z Machiavellian” Flora Stratieva (@florcheto) has a message for her 80,000 Instagram followers. “Every generation has its own historical moment that it declares to the world that they’re there… the time is ours!”
Parliamentary Elections, 9 June 2024
Bulgaria held its sixth early parliamentary election in three years on 9 June 2024. The parliament consists of 240 seats which are proportionally elected on a 4 year-term (ACE). The responsible election management body is the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), which consists of 15 commissioners appointed by the president. Commissioners are chosen to reflect the balance of political parties’ representation in the parliament.
