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Slavi Binev. Photo by BGNES
Non-aligned MEP Slavi Binev and controversial businessman and former secret agent Aleksei Petrov have joined forces for upcoming May 12 early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria.
The coalition was announced at a press conference Sunday, and will have to file documents with Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission through Monday.
It includes the GORD party, recently founded by Slavi Binev, as well as the Free People party, known to have been founded by persons close to Aleksei Petrov.
A number of other minor organizations, such as the United Bloc of Labor, the Defense Union of Patriotic Forces and the Christian-Social Union, have also joined.
The coalition will run in the May 12 vote under the monicker "Gorda Bulgaria" (meaning "proud Bulgaria," taking up Binev party's acronym GORD).
In 2009, Slavi Binev was elected to the European Parliament in the lists of major nationalist party Ataka, but has since parted ways with them.
Kiril Gumnerov and Stoyan Ivanov, former Ataka MPs who left the parliamentary group in Bulgaria's last parliament, have also joined the Gorda Bulgaria coalition.
Aleksei Petrov's name has been a mainstay in Bulgaria's public life even before his much-publicized February 2010 arrest.
Petrov has been tried in the so-called Octopus case, with former Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, publicly blaming him for standing behind significant parts of Bulgaria's organized crime.
In the 1990s, Petrov and Borisov had been partners, while working in the insurance and security business.
On his part, Binev has also worked as a businessman in that area. Since founding GORD, he has mercilessly criticized Borisov's term in office as inept.
Borisov, Binev, and Petrov have also all had a common past as accomplished athletes in the martial arts.
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