After Bulgaria 's December 2025 anti-corruption protests against the budget set by the Zhelyazkov cabinet (backed by GERB and DPS), the pro-European coalition We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria ( PP-DB ) seemed positioned to convert popular anger into electoral support. Prominent PP-DB figures featured in the protests, speaking from stages and articulating demands for dismantling the "Borissov-Peevski model." Yet when Bulgarians voted on April 19, 2026, PP-DB received just 12.69%, while