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Another Orban? Here's why you should care about Bulgaria's upcoming elections
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Another Orban? Here's why you should care about Bulgaria's upcoming elections

by Martin Fornusek

A new Russian-friendly leader may soon emerge in the EU and NATO — this time, in the Balkans. A week after Kremlin ally Viktor Orban lost his reelection campaign in Hungary, Bulgaria's former President Rumen Radev is poised to win the April 19 snap parliamentary election. Radev, Bulgaria's two-term head of state, resigned in January to lead his new Progressive Bulgaria coalition into the country's eighth parliamentary elections since 2021, quickly surging in the polls. As president, Radev has

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