Victory for EU-skeptic Radev in critical Bulgarian election: As it happened

Rumen Radev has defeated Boyko Borissov in a landslide unprecedented in the country’s modern politics

Former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has defeated former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov by 30 points in Bulgaria’s general election, according to preliminary exit polls.

With some 96% of votes counted, Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria coalition has won 44.7% of the vote, followed by Borissov’s GERB-SDS at 13.4% and caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov’s PP-DB at 12.9%.

The strongly EU-skeptical party Varazhdane (V-ESN) has won 4.3$ of the vote.

These results are closely in line with exit polls, with Alpha Research predicting that Radev would take…

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