Fun is once again just around the corner. It will come in the days leading up to November 11, when the presidential election will take place.

Elections in Bulgaria do not conform to logic whatsoever and foreign observers can often find themselves shaking their heads in absolute disbelief. For those who weren't around for the June parliamentary elections, here's a brief recap.

In the early stages of the election campaign there was a neck and neck race between those who were going to vote, those who planned not to, and those who didn't know an election was happening. Bulgarian polling agencies announced that the combined number of those figures was less than the number of people fed up with the whole political system. They didn't however, come out with any numbers on what percentage of people trusted Bulgarian polling agencies.

In any case, in a dramatic development that had been predicted for weeks, former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg decided to return to Bulgaria and form a political movement to participate in the elections. He returned as the savior of his compatriots. It of course had nothing to do with Multigroup, Stefan Sofianski, or a certain Bulgarian banker who was not happy with the then prime minister.

After overcoming some party registration hurdles, Saxe-Coburg began his election campaign with grand pronouncements like "trust me" and "in 800 days the lives of Bulgarians will be better." Asked to elaborate on his extremely detailed promises, Saxe-Coburg said "I will when the time comes."

His press office released some more vague statements, a few over-idealistic promises were made, and on election night the National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) won 120 of Parliament's 240 seats. Asked to elaborate on his governing plans on election night, Saxe-Coburg answered "I will when the time comes."

As the dust has settled on the parliamentary elections, Bulgaria's newest political force is starting to gear up for the presidential elections, with wide speculation on who will face off against the popular incumbent, Petar Stoyanov.

Stoyanov is the only serious candidate who has been announced so far. While he has started campaigning, kissing hands, shaking babies and such, the other political parties continue to discuss their options. According to a recent poll, the NMSII candidate is so far more popular than Stoyanov, with 40.8 per cent of people supporting it, while only 34.9 per cent of people are planning to vote for Stoyanov.

Given that the NMSII has yet to field a candidate, these are some very interesting numbers, leading one to believe that the presidential elections could be another case of very responsible voting.

Once again, Prime Minister Saxe-Coburg has had his name mentioned as a possible candidate. When asked recently whether he would run, Saxe-Coburg did not say yes or no. Poor guy, journalists here have to understand that those words don't exist in his vocabulary.

Regardless, the idea is ludicrous. Only a couple months after becoming prime minister, the former king, who briefly tasted the power of being head of state in his youth (before being exiled), may want it back. Most likely leaving a puppet to succeed him as prime minister, and not even really starting a job which he took as a supposed patriotic duty.

As for what will happen, we'll probably know when the time comes.