US EditionBulgaria votes as pro-Russian former president leads the polls
- On Sunday, Bulgaria holds its eighth parliamentary election in five years, with former president Rumen Radev's new party, Progressive Bulgaria, leading polls at 33% support in a vote aimed at ending chronic political instability.
- The election follows five years of near-permanent crisis in which no government survived a full term, prompting Radev to resign and launch his project to "break the oligarchy."
- GERB leader and former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov remains a dominant figure, though Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov sparked controversy by joining President Donald Trump's Board of Peace without parliamentary consultation.
- Radev's rhetoric, often compared to Prime Minister Viktor Orb, criticizes Brussels for prioritizing ideology, yet his camp has ruled out cooperation with Borissov or Delyan Peevski, complicating coalition prospects.
- Future stability remains at risk as the outcome is closely watched across Europe, particularly as delays in reforms threaten access to vital EU recovery funds needed to stabilize the economy.
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Crisis-hit Bulgaria votes in eighth election in five years
Bulgarians voted in the country's eighth election in five years on Sunday, with ex-president Rumen Radev's grouping tipped to win on a pledge to fight corruption, after an anti-graft movement triggered a long political crisis.
Bulgaria votes as pro-Russian former president leads the polls
By Alex Lefkowitz and Edward McAllister SOFIA, April 19 (Reuters) – Bulgarians will vote on Sunday in the eighth parliamentary election in five years, with the clear frontrunner, pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev, promising to end a spiral of weak, short-lived governments and stamp out widespread corruption. Radev, a eurosceptic former fighter pilot who opposes military support for Ukraine’s war effort against Moscow, stepped down from t…
In the parliamentary elections on Sunday, Bulgarians can bring to government a more moderate version of Viktor Orbán, in the person of former President Rumen Radev, whose coalition leads in polls, says for the public HotNews Krasen Nikolov, journalist of the Bulgarian publication Mediapool. Suspicions about a possible Russian interference in the campaign, denounced by the current technocratic government ...
The former president, who seems somewhat pro-Russian, would also deal with the corrupt oligarchic elite.
Ex-President Rumen Radev leads the polls with a new party. Between the fight for corruption, the fear of inflation and the pro-Russian course, the election of Bulgaria could fundamentally change the relationship with the EU.
Great favourite of the general election on Sunday 19 April, the pro-Russian ex-president Roumen Radev leniently denigrates the EU, fuelling a fight between him and the pro-Europeans, where everyone accuses each other of allegiance in Moscow, Washington or Brussels.
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