'Consolidation of power': Bulgaria elects Iliana Iotova as first woman president

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, November 2: Bulgarian papers discuss the country's new president. In Belarus, some political prisoners are held in psychiatric wards instead of prisons. Also: Hitler's Eagle's Nest burned down. Will it be rebuilt and should it? Finally, the queen of Halloween, Heidi Klum, flaunts her most disgusting costume yet. Bulgarian paper Capital headlines with "Iliana Iotova has been elected president – her victory seals the new status quo". Iotova, who was already acting president, was an independent candidate, but supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and by Prime Minister Rumen Radev's party, Progressive Bulgaria. She ran against Andrey Gyurov, who was backed by Bulgaria's pro-Western parties. As a reminder, she was the president's vice president for nine years, before he resigned and was elected PM. The liberal and pro-Western paper writes that now, Radev and his ruling party have consolidated their control over the three branches of government – the National Assembly, the government and the presidency, which had previously acted as a political counterbalance. Now, the only remaining counterbalance to the government is the justice system. The paper says that t...