The opposition GERB party of popular Sofia mayor Boyko Borisov is expected to garner 26% of the votes and the ruling Socialists are likely to get 16% in the European Parliament elections on June 7, a poll shows. Were elections for MEPs held now, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, key coalition partner of the Socialists, would gather 9% of the votes, followed by their arch rivals, the nationalist Ataka with 6%, according to the survey of local pollsters MBMD. No more than 5% of the respondents said they will support the coalition of the two biggest right-wing parties, Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) and the United Democratic Forces (UDF), while the conservative right-wing Order, Law and Justice Party will collect 2% of the votes. The third partner in the current ruling coalition, the party of former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg, is expected to garner hardly 1% of the votes. Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov, who is the informal leader of the self-styled centre-right GERB party, enjoys the highest approval rate among Bulgarian politicians, scoring 46%, the survey showed. The news comes against the backdrop of raging scandals over his alleged links with drug lord Sreten Josic and the Socialists\' campaign to discredit him with the trash crisis in the capital Sofia, which apparently have not dented his image. Second comes President Georgi Parvanov, whose approval rate stands at 42,1%. The other politicians trail considerably behind the two top scorers. Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has no more than 23.4% of approval, followed by the leader of Order, Law and Justice Party Yane Yanev, who recently made headlines with information about radical Islam among Bulgarian Muslim villages in Southwest Bulgaria (20.7%) and nationalist leader Volen Siderov (17.3%).