Bulgaria Rightist Leader: Jeleva Affair Will Teach PM about Socialists

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | January 17, 2010, Sunday // 19:21
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Rightist Leader: Jeleva Affair Will Teach PM about Socialists Bulgarian rightist leader Ivan Kostov recommends Prime minister Borisov to go ahead with his Plan B for a replacement EC Commissioner candidate. Photo by BGNES

The troubled EC Commissioner bid of Bulgaria’s Rumiana Jeleva is going to teach GERB and PM Boyko Borisov about how the Socialists act, according to rightist leader Ivan Kostov.

He contrasted the alleged disruption by the Bulgarian Socialist Party of Jeleva’s bid to the support that Boyko Borisov granted to Irina Bokova, the Bulgarian Directorate-General of UNESCO.

Kostov, who is a Co-Chair of the Blue Coalition supporting GERB, told Nova TV Sunday night that the final decision on the fate of Rumiana Jeleva was in the hands of the Socialists, the Liberals, and the Greens, whereas the European People’s Party should seek a compromise.

The Blue Coalition leader declared that Borisov should go ahead with his “Plan B” by putting forth another EU Commissioner-Designate instead of Jeleva in order to save Bulgaria’s image, and to spare EC President Jose Manuel Barroso from the currently unfavorable situation.

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Tags: Ivan Kostov, Rumiana Jeleva, Boyko Borisov, EC, Jose Manuel Barroso, EU Commissioner, EP hearing, EP, hearing, Commissioner-designate

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