Bulgarian presidential election - November 6, 2016

[Famous Mortimer]

Just as with previous Bulgarian elections, I am sweeping in to start a thread before any of the Bulgarian posters have a chance.

Election for the figurehead president on November 6, with a run-off will be held November 13th if no one gets 50%+1.

The major candidates are:

Tsetska Tsacheva, the female speaker of the parliament and candidate of the ruling corruption-based conservative party GERB.

Rumen Radev, an air force military dude independent who is backed by the main opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party. Why is the BSP afraid to run actual party members now?

Ivaylo Kalfin, former foreign minister who was the candidate of the BSP in the last election but is now the candidate of the Alternative for Bulgarian Renewal, crappy BSP breakaway party led by former president Georgi Parvanov.

Krasimir Karakachanov, deputy speaker of the parliament and member of the far right Patriotic Front party. Also backed by the far right Attack party. The alliance of the Patriotic Front and Attack is called "United Patriots".

Traycho Traykov, former minister of economy and former member of the ruling GERB party who is now the candidate of the Western style conservative alliance the Reformist Bloc.

Plamen Oresharski, former Prime Minister who when he was Prime Minister was nominated by the BSP, even though he's an independent. That's why I was saying what's the deal with the BSP never nominating members anymore.

George Ganchev, former leader of the party Bulgarian Business Bloc, who has run before.

Aleksandar Tomov, former leader of the party Bulgarian Euro-left, who has run before.

lots of other people who I don't know how relevant they are.

Please Bulgarians, fill in the gaps and also tell us who you think will win.

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Looking forward to those posts.

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Whoa whoa whoa. I definitely want to hear how Mikov fell and how the Parvanovites came back to power. I thought the ABV destroyed its credibility when they announced they would support a GERB government and then flipped flopped almost immediately.

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I am THE die-hard Bulgarian politics fan.

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So the Reformist Bloc never had their planned leadership election?

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Mantis, did you return to the BSP fold this election?