November 14 (SeeNews) - Rumen Radev, the Bulgarian presidential candidate backed by main opposition Socialists, won the run-off election with a lead of 23 percentage points, nearly final official results showed on Monday.
With 99.3% of the votes in Sunday’s elections counted Radev led with 59.35% over Tsetska Tsacheva, candidate of governing centre-right GERB party, who had 36.17%, the central election commission announced on its website.
The option to support none of the candidates was chosen by 4.48% of the voters.
CEC gave no official voter turnout figures for the end of the voting day but two polling agencies holding a parallel count of the votes put turnout at 49-50 percent on Sunday night.