Bulgarian MP Observed and Defended the Belarusian Election Process

Krastyo Vrachev, a Bulgarian MP from the pro-Russian "Revival" party, participated as one of around 430 international observers during the controversial presidential elections in Belarus. The elections, which saw long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko, running for a seventh term, securing almost 88% of the vote, were widely condemned by the European Parliament, which referred to them as a "parody" before they even took place.

Vrachev, a trained meat and milk technologist and chairman of the party's Karlovo branch, is known for advocating food sovereignty....