Ex-Tsar Party: EU Commissioner Kuneva Is Perfect for Bulgarian President, PM

Domestic | November 22, 2009, Sunday

Bulgaria's EU Commissioner Kuneva is good for President or Prime Minister, according to her party NMSP. Photo by BGNES

Key figures from the National Movement for Stability and Prosperity of former Tsar Saxe-Coburg declared Sunday Bulgaria’s first EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva was very suitable for the position of President or Prime Minister.

During a party meeting in the southern city of Kardzhali, two of the contenders to chair the NMSP after Saxe-Coburg’s stepping down over the staggering loss of the July general elections, Hristina Hristova and Nikolay Vasilev, made it clear that Kuneva was a great asset of the party, and that her political career could continue successfully after she is done being a EU Commissioner.

In Kardzhali, both Hristova, a former Labor Minister in the Saxe-Coburg cabinet in 2001-2005, and Vasilev who held various ministerial posts in 2001-2009, made it clear the NMSP party had suffered from its participation in the former three-way coalition together with Bulgarian Socialist Party and the ethnic Turkish party DPS.