Sofia – When Rumen Radev stepped down from his role as president of Bulgaria in January to run in Sunday’s parliamentary election, he urged voters to ditch the “corrupt officials, conspirators and extremists” that he said were running the country.
Bulgarians responded by handing the former fighter pilot the single biggest vote haul in a generation. The outcome will allow Radev to head Bulgaria’s first single-party government in nearly three decades, and paves the way for greater political stability after eight ?elections in five years.
Radev, 62, described the result as a “victory of hope over distrust, a victory of freedom over fear.”
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