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Bulgarians vote again

By AFP
October 03, 2022

Sofia: Bulgarians voted on Sunday in their fourth general election in 18 months, anxious about soaring consumer prices and energy costs ahead of a winter overshadowed by the Ukraine war.While endemic corruption was the focus of the previous vote last November, economic woes are now top of voters’ concerns. The European Union’s poorest member state is battling annual inflation of close to 20 percent.