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Bulgarians have begun voting to elect their president, a largely ceremonial role that the current incumbent has transformed and put at the heart of the struggle against corruption in the European Union’s poorest country.
Incumbent President, Rumen Radev, the frontrunner with 49 percent in the first round of voting last weekend, faces off on Sunday against academic, Anastas Gerdjikov after neither could secure an outright majority.
While Radev, a former fighter pilot, is the country’s most popular politician, Bulgaria itself is riven by fractious political parties that have failed to deliver a stable government needed to tackle deep-seated corruption and the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
