A N A LY S E DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS POLIT-BAROMETER Year 23 Issue 2 February Boris Popivanov The election campaign in Bul­garia has started against the backdrop of confrontational geopolitical interpretations. A battle for the first place is forming between GERB-UDF and“We Continue the Change”(“Produlzhavame Promianata”- PP)- Demo­cratic Bulgaria, which does not yet look like a battle for government. The crisis of the Bulgarian So­cialist Party is the main rea­son for the lack of an ade­quate social agenda in the country.