Held amid an ongoing high-level corruption scandal that has implicated the country's chief investigator and energy and economy minister, Bulgaria's first EP elections were marked by an extremely low voter turnout of 28.6%.
Održani u vreme korupcionaškog skandala u kome je jedan od glavnih aktera bio glavni istražitelj i ministar energije i ekonomije, prve bugarske izbore za EP obeležio je izuzetno nizak odziv birača od 28,6 odsto.