(SOFIA, BULGARIA) – Rumen Radev, the Russia-aligned former president, is on course to win Bulgaria’s parliamentary election, securing nearly 40 percent of the vote according to exit polls, though he will require coalition partners to form a governing majority. Radev’s newly created Progressive Bulgaria movement was projected to win 38.9 percent of the vote by polling agency Market Links, while Alpha Research placed the party at 37.5 percent. The result gives him more than twice the support of any other political formation in the Balkan country. The election marks Bulgaria’s eighth national vote in five years, a period defined by rolling…