Bulgaria’s pro-Russian ex-president takes early lead in election, exit polls show
Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev's political formation has emerged in first place in the country's eighth parliamentary election in five years, exit polls showed, though the result fell short of an outright majority.
Mr Radev, who stepped down from the presidency in January, entered the race promising to tackle corruption after an anti-graft movement helped plunge Bulgaria into a prolonged period of political turmoil.
The European Union's poorest member has cycled through a string of governments since 2021, when mass…