India's mammoth general election followed by Europe's big polls
general election having concluded with Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA winning a third term, the second biggest electoral exercise got underway on Thursday as around 450 million European Union (EU) citizens began voting to choose 720 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 27 countries. In partnership with leading Bulgarian news agency BTA, PTI is in Sofia to capture the scale of these elections — one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world, second only to India as it signifies as many as 27 national elections. In Bulgaria, where voting will take place on Sunday, the elections have taken on an even greater significance as the country is simultaneously voting in its early National Assembly elections to elect 240 members of Parliament.
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«A stable government in Bulgaria is the top priority, so that the country's membership of the Eurozone and the Schengen area can be speeded up,» Dr Shteryo Nozharov, Economic Adviser to the Bulgarian Industrial Association, told PTI.
«This is the right way forward for the Bulgarian economy because it will vastly improve Bulgaria's credit rating, bring widespread economic efficiency and protect against extraneous shocks such as we saw with the COVID pandemic,» he said.
Nozharov, a senior Bulgarian author and academic, believes this closer alignment with the EU is the central theme of these elections, which
