Rumen Radev wins Bulgaria election

Radev's victory comes just a week after the defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary, providing the Kremlin with a potential new foothold in Europe.

The election results are seen as a mandate to clean out corruption that has plagued the country's weak and unstable governments for decades.

EU leaders in Brussels have expressed a desire to work with the new government while monitoring for democratic backsliding.

The landslide win ends half a decade of political fragmentation in the Balkan nation.