The leader of the Socialists, Sergey Stanishev, insists voting rights of a number of Bulgarians were violated during the presidential and local elections. Photo by BGNES
The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party is mulling filing for annulments regarding the results from the presidential and local elections at least in some locations around the country, its leader Sergey Stanishev declared.
In a blitz comment after it became clear that his party's runner Ivaylo Kalfin lost Sunday's run-off to ruling party GERB's Rosen Plevneliev, Stanishev said the BSP will be resisting much harsher the actions of the Borisov government.
He blamed the GERB party for winning a rigged vote, and stressed that the Socialists have already filed a request for the annulment of the results of the local vote in Sofia where incumbent Mayor Yordanka Fandakova won reelection on the first round last Sunday.
"We won't let them get away with it that easily. We will use all means to resist. It's not shameful to lose but to win dishonestly as GERB just did," the former PM in 2005-2009 stressed.
In his words, the ruling party won the presidential and local elections with "vote-buying, manipulations, and beating", and that in addition to standing up for the welfare state, the Socialist Party has now been legitimized as the major force standing up in defense of democracy in Bulgaria.