00:00In other topics, Bulgaria's President Ilyana Iotova led the results of Sunday's presidential election
00:06with 34.6% of the vote, but she did not achieve the absolute majority needed to secure her victory.
00:14According to official data, with 95.3% of the votes counted,
00:20candidate Andrei Girov received just over 32% of the vote,
00:24which allows him to advance the runoff. The decisive runoff is scheduled for November 1st,
00:31when both candidates will face off again at the polls.
00:35The outcome will also depend on how the votes for the candidates who were eliminated from the race
00:41are distributed in an election that will determine Bulgaria's political course for the upcoming years.
