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Central Election Commission officially announces election of Rumen Radev and Iliana Iotova as president and vice president

Румен Радев
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With a decision from today's meeting, Bulgaria's Central Election Commission has announced the final results of the second round of elections for president and vice president on November 21, 2021. The winner of the runoff is the presidential candidate Rumen Radev and Iliana Iotova, nominated by the Initiative Committee and received 1,539,650 actual votes. 

Anastas Gerdjikov and Nevyana Miteva, nominated by an Initiative Committee, received 733,791 actual votes. 
34,169 voters voted with the option "I do not support anyone" in the second round.
The decision is to be published in Bulgaria's State Gazette.



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