Boyko Borisov Votes with a Paper Ballot: Is there a Functioning Machine, or Have They Run Out?
Boyko Borisov chose to cast his vote with a paper ballot in Bankya today.
Whoever wins the presidential election in Bulgaria, doubts will grow over the political future of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the Financial Times quotes commentators as saying.
The contest could result in a resignation of the central-right government, "early parliamentary elections and a struggle over how friendly the EU’s poorest member state should be with Russia," according to the newspaper.
"It will be difficult to avoid snap elections next spring" if the main ruling party's candidate, Tsetska Tsacheva, loses the vote, Daniel Smilov, of the Sofia-based Centre for Liberal Strategies, is quoted as saying.
Both leading candidates, Tsacheva and socialist opposition-backed Rumen Radev, could have wooed "Russophile elements of the electorate by promising to work for the removal of the sanctions."
The FT's story is available here.
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The prospect of US President Donald Trump's moving closer to Russia has scrambled the strategy of "balancing East and West" used for decades by countries like Bulgaria, the New York Times says.
Bulgarians have benefited a lot from their EU membership, with incomes rising and Brussels overseeing politicians, according to a New York Times piece.
German businesses prefer to trade with Bulgaria rather than invest into the country, an article on DW Bulgaria's website argues.
The truth about Bulgaria and Moldova's presidential elections is "more complicated" and should not be reduced to pro-Russian candidates winning, the Economist says.
President-elect Rumen Radev "struck a chord with voters by attacking the status quo and stressing issues like national security and migration," AFP agency writes after the presidential vote on Sunday.
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