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EuroNews (7 May 2026)

Malek Fouda

Radev won the first outright parliamentary majority in Bulgarian elections since 1997 last month on promises to fight corruption.

The winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections last month, Rumen Radev, was named the country’s new prime minister on Thursday. His landslide win in last month's parliamentary election raises hopes for a stable government in the Balkan nation, which has seen eight elections in the space of five years.

Radev ran on a ticket focused on fighting corruption and “cleaning up” what he described as Bulgaria’s “oligarchic model”. Radev, who resigned earlier this year as president to participate in the election, is a staunch EU critic, and has campaigned on resuming dialogue with Russia.

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