The victory of the GERB Party at the October 2011 presidential and local elections can be qualified as a confidence vote for the government. One of the reasons for GERB’s success is the weakness of the other political alterna­tives. At the same time, the country needs urgent reforms in the public sector, but thus far the GERB Party has manifested inconsistency in its chaotic efforts to pull them off. The President elect, Rossen Plevneliev, has been making promises of be­ing a proactive and dialog-prone President. But it is only the future that will show whether he could prove capable of emancipating himself from his politi­cal patron – the GERB Party leader and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov. The BSP continues to be the second-ranking political force in the country. The 2011 BSP election outcome has shown a certain rise in its overall elec­toral support, however slight it is, in comparison with the 2009 general elec­tion. And yet, the BSP continues to be a party backed up mainly by the older generation and is facing difficulties in attracting supporters belonging to the younger electorate. The election outcome of the presidential candidate Meglena Kuneva in­dicates that there is a potential for the rise of a new centrist formation in the country, but its actualization will very much depend on the willingness of the former European Commissioner herself to set up such a new political party. For the time being, however, her intentions to this effect remain undisclosed.