{"id":1443,"date":"2026-04-19T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:04:00","slug":"bulgaria-pro-russian-rumen-radev-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria: Pro-Russian Rumen Radev in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the eighth time in five years, <b>Bulgarians <\/b> have gone to the polls with pro-Russian Rumen Radev registering a significant lead, according to early exit polls. <\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Progressive Bulgaria, the party of pro-Russian former Bulgarian president<\/b> Rumen Radev<\/b>, is leading in the <b>parliamentary elections<\/b> held in Bulgaria today.<\/p>\n<p>According to exit polls by Sofia-based Alpha Research, the party of <b>Rumen Radev<\/b> garnered <b>37.5% of the vote<\/b>, with the GERB party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in second place with 16.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Bulgarian voters seem to give a lead to pro-Russian Rumen Radev, at a time when as of 1\/1\/2026 they changed their currency and joined the <b>eurozone<\/b>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the eighth time in five years, Bulgarians went to the polls with pro-Russian Rumen Radev registering a significant lead, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}