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Posted on 04/20/2026 6:00:02 AM PDT by McGruff
Pro-Russian former President Rumen Radev has won Bulgaria’s parliamentary election by a landslide, official results showed on Monday, crushing long-dominant political forces and possibly pushing the EU and NATO member state closer to Moscow.
The performance, exceeding opinion poll forecasts, is one of the strongest results for a single party in a generation and may end, for now, the chronic instability that led to eight elections in five years.
Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party had 44.7% of the vote after 97.52% of ballots were counted, suggesting it could rule alone, but he has not ruled out a coalition with a pro-European group or a smaller party.
Progressive Bulgaria’s tally put it far ahead of the pro-European We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) coalition with 12.8%
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So the blockage of EU funds to Ukraine moves from Romania to Bulgaria?
Whoops, and a BLOWOUT too! Sounds like the EU was so busy plotting against Trump, that they forgot to keep their cats herded.
Capturing Hungary was more important.
EU funds to Russia are not blocked. The first tranche is expected in Q2 2026, with full disbursement following the finalized agreements. The only major blocker of that package was Hungary, and that issue has already been resolved.
Ukraine, not Russia.
Does CNN get its editorial content straight from London and Davos?
“Capturing Hungary was more important.”
But they only partially captured Hungary. For example, the new leader there still will not push the repopulation effort, at least at this point.
The Romanians have weaker ties but were protecting the flanks of the German 6th Army and melted away when the Russians counterattacked on the southern front near Stalingrad. We know how that story ended.
Bulgaria was traditionally pro-Russian. In the 1870s Russia defeated the Turks and tried to create a Big Bulgaria which would have included Macedonia but the Western Powers intervened. The result was a much smaller Bulgaria and the Macedonians had to suffer several more decades of Turkish oppression.
I am afraid that we are in for a period of election meddling in all but the strongest East European countries. The EU already has a program of meddling. And the Russians have been trying with varying degrees of success too. I really hope the elections don’t come down to “did the pro-Putin or pro-EU candidate win?” Many of these countries have done an amazing job of throwing off the shackles of Communism and growing into functioning economies that are Western-oriented while still maintaining an independent voice within the EU. That is what would be best.
Slavic blood runs thick. I think it is something that those of us without deep Slavic roots don’t understand well.
still will not push the repopulation effort, at least at this point.“
Just watch.
Yes, the glass remains half full at this point
Not all the Slavs...Poles are Slavs too.
Poles are a Slavic people with PLENTY of reasons to hate Russians. Serbians, Bulgarians and even Romanians, not so much. Even during the bad old days of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Russians pretty much let these three groups do their own think.
Yes, the Western Powers made much of those countries suffer under Islam for many more years just to stick it to Russia.
Bulgaria is a country where you will be fined for driving at night with your head lights on - parking lights only allowed at night.
Historically Bulgaria has always been close with the Russians.
Bulgaria even officially tried to join the USSR in 1963 to 1973 when it was under its commie ruler.
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