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Bulgaria Votes: A Presidential Race Headed for a Runoff
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Bulgarian voters head to the polls October 25 to choose a president and vice president, with 27 candidate pairs on the ballot. Polls point to a runoff, with no outright first-round winner expected. The frontrunner is incumbent President Iliana Iotova with Kiril Valchev, the main challenger is former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov with Georgi Kandev, and a Trend poll in early October put Iotova/Valchev at 47.8 percent, Gyurov/Kandev at 24.6 percent, and Kostadinov/Volgin at 9.7 percent.