Afghanistan, Nov. 2 -- Bulgaria's acting President Iliana Iotova has won the presidential runoff with 57.58% of the vote, becoming the country's first elected female head of state.
Near-final results from the Central Election Commission, reported by Reuters on Monday, November 2, showed that Iotova and her running mate, Kiril Valchev, secured about 1.1 million votes after 99.95% of polling station protocols had been processed.
Their opponents, former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov and his running mate, Georgi Kandev, received 39.47%, or approximately 749,500 votes. Another 2.95% of voters selected the option indicating that they supported none of the candidates.
The runoff was held on Sunday, November 1, after no candidate secure...