Bulgaria looks set to veer sharply back into Moscow’s strategic orbit after Socialist candidate Rumen Radev won the presidency in a landslide on Sunday, forcing the resignation of center-right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
According to exit polls after the runoff, Radev won almost 60 percent of the vote. Tsetska Tsacheva, from Borisov’s GERB party, took just over 35 percent.
The result has plunged the impoverished Balkan state into a political crisis that will be closely monitored by the rest of the EU and NATO. The country of 7 million people occupies a sensitive position within the EU because Russia’s influence is unusually …read more
Source: European Voice
