The pro-Russian and Eurosceptic Rumen Radev won the legislative elections in Bulgaria with up to 39% of the votes, a clear but insufficient victory to govern alone, according to the first exit polls.
According to the Alpha Research agency’s survey, Progressive Bulgaria, the party created by Radev after resigning as head of state in January, would have obtained 37.5% of the votes, while the polling firm Trend gives it even 39.2%.
Radev, a former general, has attracted an electorate disillusioned with politics with a discourse against corruption and against the high cost of living in the poorest country in the European Union (EU), which has had seven different prime ministers in the last five years.
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These are already the eighth elections held in these five years and have been brought forward once again after the failure of negotiations to establish the Executive. The hope was once again to overcome fragmentation in parliament.
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