SOFIA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th November, 2021) Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is leading in the country's presidential election with 49.5% of the vote, according to an exit poll by the Market Links polling agency.
Radev is followed by Atanas Gerdzhikov with 26.5%.
If Radev fails to win over 50% of the vote, a runoff election will take place on November 21.
Meanwhile, the right-wing GERB-SDS coalition is in the lead in the parliamentary election with 24.8% of the vote, followed by the We Continue the Change party with 24.1%, according to an exit poll by Alpha Research.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party is running third with 13.7% of the vote.
