The Bulgarian son-in-law failed to become mayor of London, losing 10,000 pounds

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Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London. PHOTO: Reuters

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A record number of candidates were running for mayor of London. Among the twenty contenders to head the British capital was 49-year-old American Brian Rose, famous in Bulgaria for his Bulgarian wife Mariana.

Although he made an expensive campaign with high-tech bus tours, billboards and sending letters to thousands of voters, he garnered only 1.2% support. This means you will have to part with the £ 10,000 deposit given to take part in the vote. The reason is that they return only to those candidates for whom more than 5 percent of voters voted. Apart from the two main contenders for the post from Labor and the Conservatives, such a result was only achieved by the representative of the Green Party, which has 7.7%.

Rose settled in London 10 years ago after a banking career in New York and created the information channel London Real on YouTube, which has 2 million subscribers. However, his podcast has been described by the English media as a place for spreading conspiracy theories.

Criticism of him has intensified, especially with regard to the information he spreads about the pandemic. Some of the interviews he conducts in it had to be removed from YouTube due to complaints and the opinion of the media regulator Ofcom that they risk causing significant harm to viewers. On the eve of the vote, information emerged that he was struggling with alcohol and drug addiction, and a 2018 video of him drinking his own urine.

Thus, the current mayor of London Sadiq Khan managed to fight for a second term. He won 55.2 percent of the vote, leaving his main Conservative rival, Sean Bailey, at 44.8 percent.

Khan’s re-election is a consolation to the opposition Labor Party, which has achieved a series of disappointing results elsewhere. However, he won by a smaller margin than in 2016, when he became the first Muslim mayor of a large western capital.

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