Polls opened at 7am on November 13 in the second round of Bulgaria’s presidential elections, a run-off between Roumen Radev, the nominee of an initiative committee and backed by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, and Tsetska Tsacheva, of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.
The second round is a sequel to the November 6 vote, in which there were 21 candidates. None emerged with the 50+1 per cent of the vote that would have meant a first-round victory, hence this Sunday’s run-off, between Radev and Tsacheva, the two who got the most votes at the first round.
As with the first round, Bulgaria’s voters will have the option of rejecting both candidates – by choosing the “I don’t support anyone” box on the ballot paper.
For Bulgaria’s electorate of 6.8 million, voting is compulsory.
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