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Voter turnout in presidential runoff lower than in first round

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Voter turnout in the second round of the presidential elections in Bulgaria at 5 PM stood at 41.93 percent, the Central Election Commission says.

A total of 45.11 percent had voted at the same hour in the first round on 6 November. According to Foreign Ministry data, at 4.30 PM the election day was over in Australia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was starting in USA. At that time a total of 52,880 people had cast their vote abroad, of them 20,411 in Turkey, 2,509 in Greece, 4,925 in Spain, 6,673 in Great Britain and 3,267 in Germany.




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