March 23 (BTA) - Ahead of the April 4 general elections in Bulgaria, BTA's Daily News will be running a series of backgrounders for the front-runners: eight parties and coalitions which polls show to be certain or likely, to various degrees, to win seats in the next Parliament.

The series will include, in this order: VMRO - Bulgarian National Movement; Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) for Bulgaria; Movement for Rights and Freedoms; Democratic Bulgaria; Rise Up! Thugs Out!; Patriotic Coalition - Volya and National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB); GERB-UDF; Ima Takuv Narod [There Is Such a People].

The parties are arranged according to the number with which they will appear on the ballots.

One backgrounder will be published on each work day until April 1.

Source: Sofia