Opinion polls suggest that up to eight political parties may enter the next parliament, with the centre-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borissov leading with about 25 percent of the vote.
Some 6.7 million eligible voters hope that after inconclusive general elections in April and July, the third attempt to elect 240 lawmakers will result in a government to lead the European Union’s poorest member out of health and economic crises.
The vote will be the Balkan country's second in three months, after an April election resulted in a fragmented parliament that failed to produce a government.
Anti-establishment parties have surged while the leading right-wing coalition declined. The Turkish minority-backed party also garnered more than 10 percent of the vote.
Some 103 deputies voted in favour of the first no-confidence vote against the centre-right coalition cabinet led by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.
President Rumen Radev, who took office this month, had to call an early election after the centre-right government resigned late last year following the presidential election loss of its candidate. He will dissolve the parliament on Friday.
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