I wouldn't be so pessimistic about it, tbh GERB and DPS always had Russian interests behind them, well, until DPS got hijacked. I won't even mention BSP and Vazrazhdane. Most dirty money in Bulgaria come from 3 countries, one speaks almost exclusively Russian, the other two speak it to a large degree. Things will remain mostly unchanged, I will leave you to figure it out which countries I'm talking about though ;). In any case, most of us were surprised about the rappid accession of Bulgaria into Schengen and the Eurozone, now we know what the impetus was.

That being said, if Radev wants to be a proper populist he has to do one of two things, complete high visibitlity projects/reforms or do high visibility PR stunts. Let's see which way he goes. If he finally goes for the judicial reform with a supermajority in parliament supported by PPDB, this is bound to score him some points, along with a mop up of the current National Prosecution.

If the party's program is to be believed infrastructure investments will be a focus, but, a few months ago, out of nowhere, we've started building roads and railways to facilitate military mobility, keep an eye out if this is in any way redirected to a dead end road to Upper Uino. Bridges to Romania need to happen asap, if Radev blocks them, it's obvious who called this shot.

If he returns the refinery back to the Russians, again, obvious. But we need to be more nuanced and analyse actions rather than personas. And while the persona is clearly a Russian cocksucker, let's focus on the actions and who benefits from them so we can call things what they are - Economic interests and where they lead.

PS people notice that we're talking about Radev this, Radev that ... there's a party behind him, that party is yet to state their intentions. Are they all Russian cocksuckers? Highly likely. We just don't know it yet for sure because that party just popped up and besides a 140 pages long document they produced with AI there's nothing more to say about them.