BULGARIA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT RUMEN RADEV: MY MISSION IS TO WORK FOR PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL BULGARIA

“Today’s victory is a victory of democracy over apathy and fear. People voted for change. One is clear – the vote gave a negative mark of the ruling power and that there is a new political situation in the country, “ the socialist-backed Rumen Radev, Bulgaria’s President-elect said during the press conference after the second round of Bulgaria’s Presidential elections on 13th of November.

He thanked everyone who voted in the country and outside Bulgaria, the members of the polling stations, monitors, policemen who looked after the security of the electoral process, the volunteers in the campaign.

General Radev said that his mission now was to work for ‘a prosperous and peaceful Bulgaria, which will have unity prevailing hatred and divisions from the past”. “I remember my words, I remember my commitments and will stand by them”, he added.

The newly elected Vice President, Ilyana Yotova thanked everyone who voted in the country and outside Bulgaria, for the trust and said that it would be justified.

The journalist Elena Yoncheva, a member of the initiative committee which nominated General Rumen Radev noted that this was a great victory for Bulgaria and for every Bulgarian. “Today we have a President who is a unifier of the nation, “she said.