Bulgaria elects Iotova as its first directly elected woman president

Incumbent President Iliana Iotova won Sunday's runoff with 57.5 percent against challenger Andrey Gyurov's 39.4 percent. She campaigned as a "president of peace" favouring negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, in a vote shaped by Black Sea drone attacks on Bulgarian shipping. She takes office on January 22.

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