Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been living with an uneasy ally - the nationalist party Ataka, which supports his minority government. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has spoken against the assault committed Friday in Sofia against praying Muslims by members of the nationalist party Ataka, Borisov's political ally.
"I am absolutely against any form of intolerance," Borisov commented briefly Friday night, as he arrived in Sofia from a state visit to Poland.
He said he was informed of the incident at the Banya Bashi mosque by his aides, and was yet to view the footage.
Borisov's party GERB has condemned its own ally, the Ataka party, though in a subtle way, withouth mentioning it, over the incident in which Ataka activists assaulted praying Muslims in downtown Sofia.
While being in no formal coalition with the nationalist party Ataka, the center-right GERB party has enjoyed the latter's informal support. GERB itself has only 117 MPs out of 240; the 21 votes of the Ataka party provide it with a comfortable ruling majority.