Party of Bulgaria’s pro-Russian former president ahead in exit polls

Rumen Radev’s centre-left Progressive Bulgaria group ran on anti-corruption platform in country’s eighth election in five years

The party of Bulgaria’s pro-Russia former president Rumen Radev has come first in the country’s eighth parliamentary elections in five years, according to exit polls, but without securing a majority.

Radev, who resigned as president in January, ran on a pledge to fight corruption after an anti-graft movement triggered a long political crisis.