Bulgaria to hold presidential runoff vote on November 1

Bulgaria will hold the second round of its presidential and vice-presidential elections on November 1. According to Report, Iliana Yotova, who put forward her candidacy for head of state together with Kiril Valchev, will compete with Andrey Gyurov, whose vice-presidential candidate is Georgi Kandev.

Voting will begin at 09:00 Baku time and continue until 22:00. More than 12,000 polling stations will open across the country, where about 6.6 million citizens will be able to vote. Additional polling stations will operate in 60 countries for Bulgarian citizens living abroad or temporarily staying there.

The Bulgarian President is elected by popular vote for a five-year term and cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. A vice-president is elected at the same time. In the second round, the candidate who wins a simple majority of votes will be victorious.