politics
April 18, 2026
RT’s Complete Guide to the Bulgarian Election
What you need to know about the Bulgarian election: candidates, polling, media bias, and the populist threat posed to the EU by Rumen Radev
TL;DR
- Bulgarians are voting in their eighth election in five years on Sunday, April 19th.
- Former president Rumen Radev's Progressive Bulgaria is leading polls against Boyko Borissov's GERB-SDS coalition.
- Radev is a Ukraine skeptic and has focused his campaign on tackling corruption.
- The election's outcome could impact Bulgaria's relationships with the EU and Ukraine.
- The EU has activated its Rapid Response System to counter perceived disinformation in the election.
- Bulgaria's caretaker government signed a ten-year military cooperation agreement with Ukraine.
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