March 24 (SeeNews) - Six political parties and coalitions will enter Bulgaria's new parliament in the upcoming early elections, but none of them will have an absolute majority, according to the results of a new poll unveiled on Friday.
Centre-right GERB party, the dominant partner in the minority coalition government which resigned in November, will win 31.2% of the vote, while main opposition Socialists will come in close second with 28.1% support, the survey conducted by local research agency Exacta showed.
"However, the distance between the two major parties remains within the standard margin of error for those types of surveys," Exacta noted.
The poll was conducted among 1,000 respondents across Bulgaria between March 17 and March 22. Bulgarians will go to the polls to elect 240 members of parliament on Sunday.
Patriotic Front, a nationalist alliance of three parties, and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), which represents mainly ethnic Turks and Muslims, will attract 10.5% and 7.6% of the vote, respectively, according to the results of the survey posted on Exacta's website.
According to the survey, Volya (Will) party led by businessman Veselin Mareshki will receive 6.5% of the vote while the coalition between right-wing Reformist Bloc (RB) and Glas Naroden (Voice of the People) is seen at 4% - right on the minimum needed to enter parliament.
Three other parties will remain close below the 4% threshold, the survey showed
The coalition between left-wing ABV and Movement 21 is expected to win 2.6%, same as right-wing New Republic party. Support for the anti-corruption coalition Yes, Bulgaria which brings together the namesake party led by former justice minister Hristo Ivanov, The Greens and DEOS movement, is seen at 1.5% in the survey.
About 3.7 million of those eligible to vote intend to cast ballots, the poll showed.
A survey by Sofia-based media analysis company Perceptica on Thursday showed that if Internet users voted, the right-wing Reformist Bloc and its former members would get over 20% in total.
The graph is based on over 90,000 posts in social media (Facebook, Twitter and fora) and polls in news websites.