Bulgaria Socialist Leader: President Parvanov Victim of Revenge Plot
Domestic | November 9, 2009, Monday
President Georgi Parvanov (left) and ex-PM Sergey Stanishev (right) have publicly defended each other against criticism from the GERB party and its allies. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's former PM and Socialist Party leader, Sergey Stanishev, has stated that the moves by right-wing parties to impeach President Georgi Parvanov were part of a revenge plot.
Stanishev’s words came in response to earlier statements by the nationalists from Ataka and the rightist Blue Coalition that President Parvanov may be impeached over his involvement in violations of the UN Oil for Food program for Iraq in the late 1990s.
On Sunday, President Parvanov criticized the government led by Boyko Borisov for channeling investigations against former PM Stanishev instead of targeting the actual gangsters.
Stanishev accused Borisov of governing as an authoritarian ruler, and said his satellite allies from Ataka and the Blue Coalition reacted in a subservient way by attacking the presidential institution.
In his words, Parvanov has criticized his Socialist-led government many times but this has never been taken in so dramatically so as to move to engineer his impeachment.
Georgi Parvanov was the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 1997-2002 before he was elected President.
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