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Bulgaria's Georgieva (middle) with other Europeans of the Year who won the awards of European Voice during the ceremony at the Brussels Bourse, Nov 30, 2010. Photo by EC
Kristalina Georgieva, who just won the "European of the Year" and "EU Commissioner of the Year" awards of European Voice, has denied intentions to run for Bulgarian President for the time being.
"For me the bar in the Commission has now been raised. People expect from me to achieve the goals that we have set for 2011, and all my attention is focused there," Georgieva told the bTV channel on Wednesday, a day after she triumphed with the prestigious awards granted to her by the European Voice readers.
Georgieva has been rumored time and again in the Bulgarian media as a likely candidate of the ruling center-right GERB party in the Bulgarian Presidential Elections in the fall of 2011.
At the beginning of October, her spokesperson formally refuted any such allegations saying that nobody had asked Georgieva to run for President of Bulgaria.
Speaking on Wednesday, however, Kristalina Georgieva did leave the door open by mentioning that one cannot tell what will happen in the future.
"I have been working in Russia for many years. The Russians have a nice proverb, "Pozhivem-uvidim" (i.e. "We will live and will see."). Let me do my job here now, and after some time we can come back to this topic. Right now I am focused on serving Bulgaria from the position that I am at, and I believe this is extremely important," Georgieva stated.
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