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Bulgaria presidential vote heads to run-off between incumbent and pro-West rival

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The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a run-off, according to election officials. A record low turnout, attributed by observers to a general mistrust in politicians resulting in voter apathy, will pit two contrasting politic

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Both outlets frame the story around Bulgaria's presidential election moving to a run-off and the unusually low turnout. South China Morning Post adds that election officials called the first round inconclusive and notes, in its extract alone, a record low turnout that observers attributed to mistrust and voter apathy. Al Jazeera is more specific about the matchup, naming Iliana Yotova and Andrey Gyurov as the two candidates going into the next round.

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