In other news, Iliana Iotova, the incumbent President, has a minimum edge on main challenger & ex-cartaker PM Andrey Gyurov in the first round of the presidential elections, according to an exit poll. The runoff could be more interesting than expected.
That's significantly lower (900K votes) than what Rumen Radev's Progressive
#Bulgaria got in the parliamentary elections.
Flip side: a mere 16% had gone to the polls as of 16h. Compare to nearly half of all eligible voters in
#Serbia. Could be a historic low. Where Studentska lista (and to a lesser extent the SNS) succeeded in mobilizing voters, Iotova and Gyurov's teams only rallied a voting base.
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