Another Pro Russian Becomes A President Of Bulgaria, Expresses Hope That With Trump, No Confrontations With Russia !

Pro-Russia, anti-migration candidate Rumen Radev won the Bulgarian presidential election, partial official results showed on Monday.

Former air force commander Radev won 59.4 percent of the vote, compared with 36.2 percent for the candidate of the ruling centre-right GERB party, Tsetska Tsacheva, with 99.3 percent of polling stations counted.

Bulgaria faces an uncertain future after centre-right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov quit his post following the crushing defeat of his presidential nominee at the hands of Radev.

“The results clearly show that the ruling coalition no longer holds the majority,” the premier, who was re-elected in 2014 for a second time, said on Sunday evening.

“I apologise to those who supported us. I thought I was doing the right thing.”

Radev, a former fighter jet pilot and novice to politics, has tapped into public anger with political elites and fears about immigration, and vowed not to make the Balkan country a “migrant ghetto”.

Despite promised reforms, corruption and poverty remain rife in the EU’s poorest member state, while public anger has grown over thousands of migrants currently stranded in Bulgaria.

Speaking on Sunday evening, Radev said he hoped for good dialogue with both the US and Russia, and expressed hopes that with a new president in Washington, there will be a drop in confrontation between the West and Moscow.

“In his election campaign (Donald Trump), already elected, said clearly that he will work for a better dialogue with Russia. That gives us hope, a big hope, for a peaceful solution to the conflicts both in Syria and in Ukraine and for a decrease of the confrontation,” Radev said.

The country of 7.2 million people already has warmer ties with Russia than most of its EU peers. Radev has made it clear he believes Bulgaria, a NATO member, should focus more on its economic and political ties with Moscow, which has been under EU sanctions since it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Under Bulgaria’s constitution, the president’s job is mostly ceremonial, but whoever holds the post can influence policy, veto legislation and sign international treaties.

Radev is due to take office on January 22 for a five-year term. His first job will likely be to call early elections in spring next year, after Borisov said Sunday he would refuse to form an interim government.

********************************************** PATRIOTIC FORCES , BREAKING AWAY FROM THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE EU !

Results of the presidential election in Bulgaria show the growing role of the patriotic forces in Europe, Sergei Zheleznayk (United Russia Party), a member of the lower house’s international affairs committee, said on Monday.

“The victory of Rumen Radev, nominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, at the presidential election in Bulgaria demonstrates the growing role of patriotic forces in Europe, which make the alternative to the dictatorship of European integration, which ruins national economies and sovereignty,” he said.

“The Bulgarian people, represented by Rumen Radev, have chosen the route, which is aimed at observing national interests, at more independent foreign and home policies,” the Russia legislator said. “Radev’s support from the majority in Bulgaria demonstrates clearly that the political trend of the new leader corresponds with interests of the nation and can provide for Bulgaria the social, economic development and the consistency on the international arena.”

He also said, “Russia always has been friendly towards the Bulgarians.”

“These traditions are deep in hearts of our people, despite all the provocations and destructive decisions by Bulgarian authorities at different times in history, including in the modern history,” he said. “We hail the winner and we are ready to develop cooperation with the new Bulgarian leaders on the basis of close cultures, good neighbourhood and mutual respect.”

“I hope the relations will improve, first of all in economy. I think that over the past years our relations could be called abnormal taking into consideration the historic proximity of the two countries,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house).

The senator noted that still no breakthrough may be expected. “We understand that Bulgaria is a NATO member-state and they have their own interests and strategic tasks, but this should not hamper our relations,” he added.

Radev’s victory shows that for Bulgaria’s citizens the fairytale on the future in the EU is no more attractive. “They understood that they lost a lot by abandoning economic cooperation with Russia,” the senator said, recalling that Bulgaria’s budget lost hundreds of millions of euros due to the scrapped South Stream gas pipeline project.

The opposition’s candidate Rumen Radev wins the presidential election in Bulgaria with 59.08%. At his first news conference, he said he was hoping for development of a “deep dialogue with Russia.”