Bulgaria held parliamentary elections yesterday. Reuters reports,
Bulgaria’s Kremlin-friendly ex-president wins election in landslide.
Ok. So the new guy in charge is a former guy who likes Putin. More about the man,
A eurosceptic and former fighter pilot opposed to military support for Ukraine’s war effort against Moscow, [Rumen] Radev stepped down from Bulgaria’s largely ceremonial presidency in January to run in the parliamentary election after mass protests forced out the previous government in December.
And his politics? Reuters doesn’t really say. He seems to be pro-Russian and anti-corruption.
He formed his party last month, just before the election. Wikipedia takes a stab at the ideology,
Ideology:
Left-conservatism
Left-wing populism
Left-wing nationalism
Social democracyPolitical position: Centre-left to left-wing
Social democracy I kind of understand. But every other description (Euro-skeptic, conservatism, populism, nationalism, pro-Russia) is usually characterized in the European context as “far right.”
I guess we’ll find out what it all means.
