Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov refuted recent statements he may end up running for President in the fall.

"It is 99.99% sure that I will not run for President, I am sick of repeating that over and over again for the past year and a half. I have left myself a 0.001% chance to run just in order to show my respect for the party, which, naturally, nominated me as its first choice," Borisov declared Thursday while on a visit to Hague, according to the Dnevnik daily, doing a slight math error.

Earlier Thursday, in an interview for the Bulgarian National Television, Borisov's head of cabinet, Rumyana Bachvarova, pointed out that a conclusive decision on Borisov's candidacy is yet to be made. She did, however, state that the Prime Minister's authority would lead to a thorough transformation of the existing political landscape, should he decide to move to the presidential office.

The Prime Minister, who is in the Netherland's administrative capital for the openening of the 7th global meeting of Bulgarian media, also commented on his own hint on Wednesday that early general elections are a possible option in the country.

"If the government is unstable, I will be the one who will propose early elections," Borisov said.

Borisov said he does not exclude the early parliamentary elections option after he condemned his ruling centrist-right GERB party's only ally, the far-right Ataka (Attack), over the incident in which its nationalist activists assaulted praying Muslims in downtown Sofia last Friday.

After the assault, Ataka's leader, Volen Siderov, threatened to withdraw his party's support for Borisov's minority government, stating the police did not react to his supporters getting "attacked by Islamist fundamentalists."

Meanwhile, a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable was published Thursday regarding the Bulgarian Prime Minister. The cable offers a summary of Borisov's career, his contacts, personal characteristics, public and secret ties, and his attitude towards the US. Beyrle also notes that in the past "Borisov has been implicated in serious criminal activity and maintains close ties to LuKoil and the Russian embassy."

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