Thanks for your elaborate explanation! That's fascinating, definitely not what I expected... I only skipped one question, the last one. Took it again to see if something had gone wrong but got a result that was almost exactly the same, but with DROM in second place...
Bulgarian Spring definitely doesn't sound like it's for me. Don't mind a party being very left-wing economically in Bulgaria, but anti-Americanism/anti-NATO views are a no-go and I'd like it to be relatively socially liberal too.
These were my results for the other test, quite different -- though apparently still terrible parties on top of the list... Not much overlap with any party at all. I don't understand why it says I focus on "stabilnost" rather than reform when I "support" (strange to say for a country whose politics I barely know, but you know what I mean) pretty radical anti-corruption measures and higher taxes... but maybe it has to do with my disapproval of implementing a single-member district system.
This exercise has made Bulgarian politics seem even more complicated to me than it did before, haha. However, tests like these simply cannot capture the importance of personalism and personal interests. This isn't too much of an impediment to their usefulness in countries where politicial parties are ideological, but it is much more problematic in countries like Bulgaria where most parties appear to revolve around personalism, clientelism, and personal interests -- and then there's the ethnic identity factor too, since no ethnic Bulgarian is going to vote for a Turkish or Roma party.
