PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Nov 8
SOFIA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- Some 1.6 million Bulgarians, who voted in the first round of the presidential polls for different candidates would have to reconsider their choice and decide whether to back Socialist-backed Rumen Radev or ruling GERB party candidate Tsetska Tsacheva in the runoff this Sunday making its outcome difficult to predict. (24 Chasa, Capital Daily)
-- The nationalists, whose candidate Krasimir Karakachanov won 15 percent of the presidential vote on Sunday said they will not urge their supporters to choose who to back at the presidential runoff. Analysts said the nationalist vote is likely to decide the presidential race (24 Chasa, Monitor, Standart)
-- The ethnic Turkish MRF party suggested that it would back the Socialist-backed candidate, while the government's junior coalition partner, the Reformist Bloc, said it would support the candidate of ruling GERB party. (24 Chasa, Trud, Monitor, Capital Daily, Sega, Standart, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria ranked 57-th among 149 countries in the Legatum Global Prosperity Index for 2016. The country ranks last among the EU member states, mainly due to corruption and poverty levels. (Capital daily, Sega, Trud)
