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Bulgarian ex-President and contender for Socialist Party leader Georgi Parvanov has suggested that the party's next leader be elected on an open vote by all party members.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party leaders have up to now been chosen by party delegates chosen by regional structures, who assemble on a party congress.
The next such congress in in May. Current Socialist leader and Bulgarian ex-PM Sergey Stanishev said he will re-submit his candidacy.
But Parvanov, who stepped down January from being Bulgaria's President after serving 2 5-year terms, said he will try to re-win the Socialists' leader post.
Parvanov headed the Socialists 1997-2001 before becoming President of Bulgaria, to be succeeded by Stanishev.
Speaking at a press conference in Yambol Sunday, Parvanov said that a more democratic leader election procedure would have BSP members across the country vote for their leader.
At the same time, Stanishev, speaking at a Socialist forum in Sofia, denied the legitimacy of such a method, saying that the leader will then not have a body to be directly accountable to.
Stanishev and Parvanov have of late turned Sundays into something of a day of exchanging remarks in absentia.
Parvanov has spent many days recently travelling across the country and meeting local Socialist structures to pave his party leadership bid.
On his part, Stanishev has been organizing Socialists fora in capital Sofia, on which strategic issues for the party are being discussed.
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