Rumen Radev, President of Bulgaria
Rumen Radev resigns from being president but must form a party to run in other elections. Still the Generation Z effect.
The President of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, announced this Monday its resignation, before the anticipated legislative elections scheduled for spring, in the most recent episode of political crisis which has been destabilizing the country for five years.
“Tomorrow (Tuesday), I will submit my resignation as President of the Republic of Bulgaria,” said Rumen Radev, 62, in an official statement to the nation.
This announcement comes after nine years of Radev in that position and at a time when the Balkan country finds itself without a Government, after the resignation of the executive in December 2025, following a wave of popular protest triggered by the introduction of the euro.
“Today, I address you for the last time as President. First of all, I would like to ask for forgiveness for what I couldn’t do. But it is precisely my conviction that we will achieve this that is one of the main reasons for this decision”, said Radev, in the message broadcast on national public television.
“Our democracy cannot survive if we leave it in the hands of corrupt figures, traders and extremists“, declared the president.
Mas Rumen Radev should return: information has emerged indicating that the resigning president will form a party, his political party, to compete in the next elections for the parliament Bulgarian.
For now, his successor is the vice-president, Iliana Iotova. And he should remain in office until November, the date of new presidential elections.
Rumen Radev was president 10 years ago. He was elected in 2016 and was elected in 2021. He has shown himself against Bulgaria’s accession to the euro and has shown that it is on the Russian side already .
In other words, if you create a party and are elected prime minister, there may be a small revolution in Bulgaria, especially in foreign policy.
It is the second dismissal in just over a month. In December, the coalition government led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned, after weeks of protests and demonstrations against endemic corruption and the perception that political elites live disconnected from the population’s difficulties.
For the first time, a European country saw a government fall to, essentially, the hands of . The protests, organized and managed by young people, were essential to this outcome.
Bulgaria has gone through seven legislative elections in four years.
