Low turnout is expected in this country buffeted by forces larger than its domestic politics
Four governments have come and gone in the space of 19 months, as well as a banking crisis and the biggest protests since the fall of communism.
So Bulgarians can be forgiven for pessimism as they vote on Sunday in an election that few believe will deliver them from corruption, stagnation and geopolitical crunch caught between their new overlords in the EU and their old one in Moscow.