The GERB nominee Yordanka Fandakova won the mayoral elections held in Sofia after the first election round, according to the election forecast results as of 8 pm yesterday. According to the exit polls, she has received a bit over 50% of the votes in Sofia, while her main opponent George Kadiev won a little over 22%. The Blue Coalition candidate, Proshko Proshkov was supported by about 12% of the Sofia electorate.

According to the prognosis exit poll results, Nikola Pehlivanov from the Ataka party won 3.2% of the local vote, while Vladimir Karolev from NMSP received about 2.7%.

At  5 pm, electoral activity in Sofia reached 33.60% during the local ballot, announced the Sofia Municipal Election Commission.