The Canada Brief

World · 10 d ago

Black Sea coast, Bulgaria

Evgeni Dinev from Burgas, Bulgaria · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Bulgarians vote for a president as the war in Ukraine nears their coast

Iotova

41%

Gyurov

28%

Polls put President Iliana Iotova, who backs a diplomatic end to the war, ahead of ex-caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, who backs Ukraine.

What's next

No candidate is expected to win outright, so a run-off is likely on Nov 1.