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According to preliminary results in Bulgaria’s presidential election, leftist opposition candidate Rumen Radev has won with 24.9 percent of the vote.

Parliament speaker Tsetska Tsacheva, of the same party as Prime Minister Bokyo Borisov, came in second in the November 6 election with 22.3 percent. Pre-election polling had predicted Tsacheva to win.

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