SOFIA (Reuters) – No clear winner emerged in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election, the third held this year, exit polls showed on Sunday, with the centre-right GERB party of former premier Boyko Borissov ahead in three surveys and a new centrist group leading in another.
Alpha Research’s exit poll showed GERB’s narrowly leading the election with 24.8%, while Gallup International saw the new faction, We Continue The Change, coming first with 25.7%.
The other exit polls showed GERB leading with about 23.5-24.7% of the vote.
In the presidential vote also held on Sunday, incumbent Rumen Radev, a harsh critic of Borissov, was seen winning around 49% support in the first-round vote, two exit polls showed.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Nick Macfie)
