保加利亚人周日在总统决选中投票，两名候选人在乌克兰战争和对俄关系问题上持对立观点，而黑海局势正日益紧张。现任总统伊利亚娜·约托娃主张与莫斯科对话，对阵由亲西方反对派支持的前看守总理安德烈·久罗夫。
Bulgarians voted Sunday in a presidential runoff between two candidates with opposing views on the Ukraine war and relations with Russia as tensions mount in the Black Sea. Incumbent President Iliana Iotova, who favours dialogue with Moscow, faces off against Andrey Gyurov, a former caretaker prime minister backed by the pro-Western opposition.
保加利亚人周日在总统决选中投票，两名候选人在乌克兰战争问题上持截然不同的主张，此前黑海发生了一系列针对商船的无人机袭击。
Bulgarians voted Sunday in a presidential runoff between two candidates with contrasting visions on the war in Ukraine, following a series of drone attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea.
这场角逐将主张与莫斯科对话、反对向乌克兰提供军事援助的总统伊利娅娜·约托娃，与银行家、前看守总理、获亲西方反对派支持的安德烈·久罗夫置于对立面，竞逐这一主要具有礼仪性质的职位。
The race pits President Iliana Iotova, who favours dialogue with Moscow and opposes military aid to Ukraine, against Andrey Gyurov, a banker and former caretaker prime minister backed by the pro-Western opposition, in the race for the largely ceremonial post.
约托娃在上周首轮投票中获得35%选票，久罗夫获得32%——差距远小于民调预测的约托娃20个百分点的领先优势。首轮投票率为23%，选举官员预计决选投票率将更高。
Iotova won 35 percent of the vote in the first round last week, with Gyurov on 32 percent – a much narrower gap than the 20-point lead for Iotova predicted by opinion polls. The first round recorded turnout of 23 percent, and election officials were expecting higher participation in the runoff.
政治分析师特奥多尔·斯拉韦夫对法新社表示，选民正在对“约托娃针对黑海俄罗斯威胁给出的令人信服不足的回应”做出裁决。
Political analyst Teodor Slavev told AFP that voters were giving their verdict on "Iotova's unconvincing response regarding Russian threats in the Black Sea".
10月，黑海保加利亚近海发生数艘船只被击中事件，造成21人失踪，疑为俄乌战争外溢所致。
Several vessels were struck in the Black Sea off Bulgaria in October, leaving 21 people missing, in suspected spillover from the Russia-Ukraine war.
中左翼总理鲁门·拉德夫曾表示，这些袭击似乎服务于俄罗斯利益，并召见了俄罗斯大使，但其政府坚持认为，目前尚无证据直接将这些袭击与莫斯科联系起来。“两害相权取其轻”在索非亚的一个投票站，64岁的教师克拉西米拉·科斯托娃表示，尽管对两名候选人都不满意，她仍前来投票。
While centre-left Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said the attacks appeared to serve Russian interests and summoned the Russian ambassador, his government insists there is so far no evidence directly linking them to Moscow. 'Lesser evil' At a polling station in Sofia, 64-year-old teacher Krassimira Kostova said she voted despite dissatisfaction with both candidates.
“我不喜欢这两位候选人中的任何一位，但我也不喜欢近年来我们看到的共产主义回潮。这就是我来投票的原因，”她说。
"I don't like either of the two candidates, but I don't like the return of communism we've been seeing in recent years either. That's why I came to vote," she said.
67岁的退休工程师Petar Doitchinov表示，他因预计会进入第二轮投票而放弃了首轮投票。他说自己投了“两害相权取其轻”，因为两位候选人都不符合他心目中“民主的愿景”。
Petar Doitchinov, a 67-year-old retired engineer, said he had skipped the first round because he expected a runoff. He said he voted for "the lesser evil", as neither candidate matched his "vision of democracy".
根据保加利亚中央选举委员会的数据，在全国大部分地区出现雨夹大风天气的情况下，当地时间上午11点（格林威治标准时间0900）的投票率为6.1%，而首轮投票同一时段的投票率为5.8%。
In rainy, windy weather across much of the country, turnout stood at 6.1 percent at 11:00am local time (0900 GMT), compared with 5.8 percent at the same time in the first round, according to the Bulgarian electoral commission.
投票于上午7点开始，将于晚上8点结束，届时预计将很快公布出口民调，给出胜者的初步迹象。“强大的保加利亚”在索非亚投票后，62岁的约托娃表示，她希望“保加利亚在强大的欧洲中强大起来”，并“在决策上保持主权”。
Polls opened at 7:00am and will close at 8:00pm, with exit polls shortly after that expected to give an indication of the winner. 'Strong Bulgaria' After voting in Sofia, Iotova, 62, said she wanted "Bulgaria to be strong in a strong Europe" and remaining "sovereign in its decisions".
作为拉德夫的长期盟友，她支持保加利亚的欧盟和北约成员国身份，同时主张只有通过谈判才能实现乌克兰的和平。
A longtime ally of Radev, she supports Bulgaria's EU and NATO membership while arguing that peace in Ukraine can be achieved only through negotiations.
50岁的久罗夫在布拉戈耶夫格拉德投票后表示，他投了一票给“安全、稳定和欧洲化的保加利亚”。
Gyurov, 50, said after voting in Blagoevgrad that he had voted for a "secure, stable and European Bulgaria".
在决选前的电视辩论中，久罗夫批评约托娃没有明确指责俄罗斯发动黑海袭击。
In a television debate before the runoff, Gyurov criticised Iotova for not explicitly blaming Russia for the Black Sea attacks.
“俄罗斯必须停止其侵略，以便采取后续步骤，”久罗夫说，他是保加利亚国家银行前副行长。约托娃坚持认为“和平只能通过谈判实现”。
"Russia must stop its aggression so that the next steps can be taken," said Gyurov, a former deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank. Iotova maintained that "peace can come only through negotiations".
阅读更多“迟早我们将出现欧洲伤亡，这很清楚”，罗马尼亚欧洲议会议员 拉德夫也主张，停火和和平谈判是防止黑海商业航运遭受进一步袭击的最佳机会。他将约托娃描述为一双“稳健的手”。
Read more'It is clear that sooner or later we will have European casualties', Romanian MEP Radev has also argued that a ceasefire and peace talks offer the best chance of preventing further attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea. He has presented Iotova as a pair of "safe hands".
作为前记者和欧洲议会议员，约托娃曾在2016年和2021年随拉德夫当选副总统。今年拉德夫辞职参加议会选举时，她接任了总统一职。
A former journalist and member of the European Parliament, Iotova was elected vice-president alongside Radev in 2016 and 2021. She took over as president this year when Radev stepped down to run in parliamentary elections.
如果在决选中获胜，她将成为这个拥有640万人口的国家的首位女总统。
If successful in the runoff, she would become the first woman president in the country of 6.4 million people.
历史上与俄罗斯关系密切的保加利亚，在其与莫斯科的关系问题上依然严重分裂。
Historically close to Russia, Bulgaria remains deeply divided over its relationship with Moscow.