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Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov should not be in charge of the government's electoral campagn, the Bulgarian opposition says. Photo by BGNES
The leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) have officially suggested foreign poll observers to be invited for the upcoming Presidential and local elections in the country.
In a letter to Parliamentary chair Tsetska Tsacheva, the two parties have claimed that the presence poll observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe would ensure fair and democratic elections.
Representatives from DPS and BSP say their fear that the opposite might happen is fueled by the fact that current Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov was appointed head of the ruling centrist-right GERB' campaign for the Presidential elections staged for Fall 2011, which they deem completely unacceptable.
The possible presence of foreign observers will cost nothing to the Bulgarian state, according to BSP and DPS MPs
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