Iotova–Valchev Ticket Leads in Bulgaria’s Presidential Runoff

Dragon Media News Desk

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission has released the first official preliminary count from the second round of the presidential election. According to the commission, acting President Iliana Iotova and vice-presidential candidate Kiril Valchev have received 57.943 percent of the vote.

Their challengers, Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev, have secured 39.007 percent. These preliminary results were published after 17.39 percent of election commission protocols had been processed, as of 11 p.m. local time.