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D. Bulgaria is ruled by its elected National Assembly which selects a prime minister and cabinet who wield executive power. The last national election in 2014 saw the lowest turnout in 25 years, of about 51 percent, and produced a particularly fractured parliament.
B. Only 49 percent of voting age Americans participated in the 1996 election, and the average for the last 10 presidential elections is about 53 percent. Participation in U.S. “off-year” and local elections is usually much, much lower.
C. Greece's capital city of Athens was home to the ancient Athenian democracy which held that it was every citizen's duty to participate in decision making and voting. Attendance at the city-state's assembly was voluntary, but citizens were under social pressure to participate.
D. Bulgaria became independent from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1908. Bulgaria is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east.