{"id":1457446,"date":"2026-10-26T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/over-95-of-votes-counted-in-bulgaria-russian-supporter-in-the-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:53:47","slug":"over-95-of-votes-counted-in-bulgaria-russian-supporter-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/over-95-of-votes-counted-in-bulgaria-russian-supporter-in-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 95% of votes counted in Bulgaria: Russian supporter in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The presidential election in Bulgaria is moving into a second round. After 95.29% of the protocols have been processed, Iliana Yotova is leading with 34.6% of the vote, while her main rival, Andrei Gyurov, is receiving 32%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by<\/a> Bulgarian National Television, citing data from the Central Election Commission.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary results, 34.598% of voters voted for Yotova and vice-presidential candidate Kyrylo Vilchev. Andrey Gyurov and Georgy Kandev received 32.038%.<\/p>\n

The difference between the two candidate pairs is just over 37 thousand votes.<\/p>\n

Third place is taken by the leader of the pro-Russian far-right party “Vazrazhdane” Kostadin Kostadinov and Petar Volgin – 12.624%.<\/p>\n

Since no candidate pair received more than 50% of the vote, Yotova and Gyurov are scheduled to face off in the second round of the presidential election on November 1.<\/p>\n

At polling stations abroad, the picture is different: after processing 96.57% of the protocols, Gyurov and Kandev are leading there with 45.225%, while Yotova and Vilchev receive 23.143%.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, in April, the pro-Russian Progressive Bulgaria party won<\/a> the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, and according to preliminary results, it received a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n

Earlier, after the vote, it was reported<\/a> that Rumen Radev’s political force was significantly ahead of its competitors.<\/p>\n

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The presidential election in Bulgaria is moving into a second round. After 95.29% of the protocols have been processed, Iliana Yotova is leading with 34.6% of the vote, while her main rival, Andrei Gyurov, is receiving 32%. This was reported by Bulgarian National Television, citing data from the Central Election Commission. According to preliminary results, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":499914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76885,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1457446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}