 Bulgaria’s first-ever reelected president has indeed secured his post with a smashing advance on his opponent, the ballots counted so far show. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency) |
Bulgaria’s first-ever reelected president has indeed secured his post with a smashing advance on his opponent, the ballots counted so far show.
With 99% of the ballots already checked, Georgi Parvanov has garnered 75.736%, while nationalist Volen Siderov has convinced some 24.264% of the voters to join him.
Parvanov’s lowest count comes from the eastern city of Stara Zagora, where all ballots have been counted and he has only gathered 69% of the votes, as announced by the Central Election Committee.
Siderov’s biggest loss seems to be among the Bulgarians abroad, where he has only gathered 5.24% with 79.17% of the ballots counted.
Within the borders of Bulgaria Parvanov’s most impressive victory was noted in the predominantly Turks-populated region of Kurdzhali, where he garnered the whooping 91.2%.
A total of 2,674,586 of the 6,430,117 who were eligible to vote, have cast a ballot in the run-off. Parvanov won over 2,000,030 people, while Siderov settled for 643,876.