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Bulgaria’s Revolving Door Picks a Favorite Former Bulgarian president Rumen Radev is emerging as the big winner in today’s parliamentary election, the country’s eighth in five years. Reuters reports exit polls put his coalition, Progressive Bulgaria, at 37.5%, far ahead of Boyko Borissov’s GERB at 16.2%. That does not guarantee a majority, but it makes Radev the central figure in the next government-building round and the likely frontrunner for prime minister. The political meaning is larger than one ballot. Radev ran on anti-corruption rhetoric and exhaustion with Bulgaria’s carousel of weak governments, but he is also widely seen as more Russia-friendly than the Brussels consensus, especially because he opposes military support for Ukraine and favors reopening dialogue with Moscow. In an EU state already battered by instability, that makes this less a normal election than a stress test for how much room remains inside Europe for leaders who want distance from the hard anti-Russia line. So the headline is simple: Bulgaria did not vote for calm. It voted for a man promising to end paralysis, with Brussels now forced to watch whether “stability” comes with a geopolitical accent it does not like. #BabylonBurning#Bulgaria#EU#DemocracyTheater 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸