A N A LY S E DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS POLIT-BAROMETER Year 24 Issue 7 July- August Boris Popivanov The pre-election situation in Bulgaria brings to the fore the problem with the registration of parties and coalitions. There are clear symptoms of a crisis of the party system, most clearly represented by the unprecedentedly violent internal conflict in MRF. The unification of the left wing has a chance only if it quickly overcomes the post-Ninova phase and the agenda of the right wing.