SOFIA, Bulgaria — Leaked photographs of the prime minister. Bulgaria is gripped in a political crisis, its biggest since 2013, when sustained protests against corruption brought down a center-left government. Now demonstrators are trying to oust their right-wing successors, who face similar accusations of corruption, judicial interference and servility to wealthy businessmen. In Hungary and Poland, Europe’s two most prominent victims of democratic backsliding, the governing party is driving the subversion of the democratic process. In Bulgaria, the charge is led by a wider range of actors, both inside and outside the government — including a small group of wealthy businessmen.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2020 16:41 UTC