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Sexual harassment in the workplace affects 18.9% of surveyed employees, primarily women (80%) and leads to major personal and professional costs. Low awareness and limited employer action (35% proactive) discourage victims from reporting. Law enforcement, improvement of workplace protocols, union-led initiatives, and multi-level collaboration to promote supportive workplace cultures that prevent harassment.

The pre-term parliamentary elections did not offer a clear way out of the political crisis in Bulgaria. The problem of the fairness of the electoral process has permanently entered the political agenda. A coalition around GERB-UDF and PP-DB and a GERB-UDF minority government so far seem to be the most likely alternatives to new pre-term elections.

The pre-election campaign in Bulgaria started with the expected participants and with unchanged inter-party relations. The conflict between the two wings of MRF is a leading political intrigue of the campaign. Attitudes about a continuing political crisis and a fragmented parliament dominate.

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.

Pre-term elections produced a fragmented parliament, unable to overcome the political crisis. The intra-party conflict in MRF becomes a major factor of tension in Bulgarian politics. There is a growing risk that the spiral of pre-term elections will continue.

The Bulgarian commitment to the cause of Ukraine in the war with Russia is increasing. The election campaign is going against the backdrop of revenge of the “status quo” against the “change”. A government with a leading role of GERB is the most likely alternative to more early elections.

The caretaker cabinet began work without clear political support and without its own authority. The election campaign was dominated by a powerful campaign to discredit the second political force PP-DB. The country’s leading political configuration is formed of the informal alliance between GERB and MRF.

Bulgaria faces early elections without a dominant dividing line in the political space. The risk of political chaos posed by the unclear constitutional framework has not yet been overcome. Public opinion is divided between everyday problems

and national fears.

Government rotation is turning out to be a complex process that will probably defy expectations of ease and speed. GERB hold the political initiative for the first time in 3 years. The opposition parties do not show the capacity to offer an alternative to the government crisis.

Preparations for a government rotation began with complex negotiations for a “package deal” between the ruling parties. The political debate is subordinated to the powerful political attack by MRF politician Delyan Peevski against President Rumen Radev. Suggestions for the non-alternativeness of the government majority fuelled expectations for new political projects.