Bulgaria reallives outgoing president Roumen Radev to pursue anti-corruption fight

This unmurrent victory reinforces the victory of the party continue the change, at the top of the legislatures last week.

Le Monde with AFP

The outgoing president, Roumen Radev, was largely imposed on the second round of elections Sunday, November 21 in Bulgaria, a victory awaited that comes to reinforce the anti-corruption movement engaged in dealings to form a government and get out of the political crisis.

It collected between 63 and 65% of the vote, according to exit estimates of the urns of three survey institutes. His opponent Anastas Guerdjikov, who presented himself with the support of the Conservative Party Gerb from the former Prime Minister Boalko Borissov, is credited from 31 to 33% of the vote.

In this Parliamentary Republic of the Balkans, the government defines the policy, the president with an essentially protocol role. But Roumen Radev, novice when he won in 2016, gave the function another magnitude and won over the years as a key character of the political game.

At the top of the first round on November 14 with more than 49% of the vote, this former hunting pilot and former head of the 58-year-old armed forces was re-elected on the promise to complete his mission of “change” .

A president committed against corruption

In the summer of 2020, Radev had clearly ranked on the side of the protesters, claiming the resignation of the Conservative Prime Minister Boalko Borissov. After the elections of April 4, who sealed the fall of his enemy but resulted in a political stalemate, the general has chosen new faces to compose the interim government, which has acquired a wide popularity for bringing the practices of corruption. Borissov era.

These are two ex-ministers of this team who won, on Sunday, November 14, the legislative election at the head of their new training, continue the change. Kiril Petkov, who brigues Prime Minister’s position, and his acolyte, Assen VasiLelev, started this week the topic to get out of an unprecedented crisis since the end of the communist regime.

/Media reports.