Bulgaria's Ruling Party 'Gets' One More Mayor by Mistake

Politics » DOMESTIC | December 11, 2011, Sunday // 16:53
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Ruling Party 'Gets' One More Mayor by Mistake A letter from the State Agriculture Fund has changed the mayor of Bulgaria's Popovo. Photo by BGNES

More than a month after Bulgaria's 2011 local elections a Bulgarian town has had its newly-elected mayor changed, at least according to the municipal correspondence with a key central authority institution.

A letter from the State Agriculture Fund, a Bulgarian government agency that handles the distribution of EU funding for agriculture and rural development, has sent a letter to the northeastern municipality of Popovo, in which it has indicated as recipient the mayoral candidate of the ruling center-right party GERB, Ivan Dimitrov.

The only problem with the correspondence is that Dimitrov actually lost the vote to his opponent, incumbent Lyudmil Veselinov, who won his sixth consecutive term as Popovo Mayor.

A copy of the letter that proclaims as Popovo Mayor the candidate of the ruling party of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has been quick to hit Bulgarian Internet forums and social networks.

It has generated various reactions most of which boil down to believing that the ruling party GERB had notified "in advance" the state institutions about the "change of power" in the town of Popovo, which subsequently failed to materialize.

Others tend to believe that – as few of Bulgaria's 264 municipalities have not been won by GERB candidates – that fact is to change at Bulgaria's next local elections, with an even more sweeping victory for Borisov's formation.

Popovo Mayor Veselinov has declared that he believed the mistake was a bureaucratic mix-up, as cited by BGNES. He did say that this is the second letter from the State Agriculture Fund in which his name is replaced with that of his election opponent.

The precise contents of the letters has not been leaked to the public.

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