Boyko Borisov, leader of the Bulgarian opposition GERB party. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian opposition leader Boyko Borisov has suggested that the ruling Socialist-led coalition government is facing a rift over the country’s draft Election Code.
On Friday, the Bulgarian Parliament rejected the possibility of election campaigning in any native language other than Bulgarian, fueling discontent in the predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, a member of the ruling coalition.
“The Movement for Rights and Freedoms is mad at the Socialists,” Borisov told reporters on Friday, jokingly explaining that people sometimes quarrel when they are in a relationship.
“It is apparent that the Bulgarian Socialist Party is in ruins. You saw how frightened they looked in Parliament,” the former Prime Minister added.