A recently announced political project associated with Bulgaria’s former President Rumen Radev now leads polling with 32.7% support among those who intend to vote.
The center-right GERB follows in second place with 20.4%. The contest for the third position remains open, with the liberal WCC-DB at 10.9% and the centrist DPS-New Beginning close behind at 10.5%. The right-wing Revival ranks fifth with 7.8%, securing a place among the parties certain to cross the threshold.
A Radev-led party would likely align with a growing group of national-conservative governments in Central and Eastern Europe, including Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz in Hungary, Robert Fico’s SMER in Slovakia, and the ANO movement led by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
Domestically, the former Bulgarian president has embraced socially conservative positions, backing legislation restricting the promotion of LGBT identity in schools and opposing the Istanbul Convention on violence against women—a text he claims promotes “gender ideology.”
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