Presidency of Rumen Radev

Rumen Radev's tenure as the 5th President of Bulgaria began with his first Inauguration on 22 January 2017 and ended when he officially resigned on 23 January 2026, the second to do so in Bulgaria's post-Communist history after Petar Mladenov. Radev, who served as higher commander of the Bulgarian Air Force and held the rank of major general, won the 2016 Bulgarian presidential election as an independent candidate supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).

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