Bulgaria's President to Return to Home Party after Leaving Office - Report

Politics » DOMESTIC | August 24, 2011, Wednesday // 15:51
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's President to Return to Home Party after Leaving Office - Report Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov's second term ends in January 2012. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov may return to the leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), from which he once started his political career, after he finishes his second and last term in office.

Parvanov was BSP's leader from 1996 until 2001, when he was elected, against the odds, president for the first time. In the 2006 elections, he was endorsed by an initiative committee.

The President has already told the party's current leader, former PM Sergey Stanishev, that he is willing to return, a media report says. According to the Trud daily, Parvanov not only mulls returning to BSP, but becoming its leader once again.

In May, when asked whether he considered a return to BSP, Parvanov told journalists he would answer that when his term ends.

Parvanov has stated on previous occasions his intention to remain at the forefront of Bulgarian politics after January 2012, when his second and last term in office expires. Many have suspected that the movement he initiated at the end of 2011, Alternative for Bulgarian Renneisance (ABV, or the first three letters of the Slavic alphabet), would sooner or later transform into a political party.

He has, however, officially denied such option.

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