Bulgarian Socialist leader, Sergey Stanishev, says the only difference between former Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and his Deputy, former Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, is the number of years they will spend in prison.

"Borisov and Tsvetanov are like Siamese twins. The difference between them is that one will be jailed for 8 years and the other for 5," the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, the Party of European Socialists, PES, and former PM said while campaigning in the northeastern city of Razgrad for the snap May 12 general elections.

Stanishev stressed Borisov's formerly-ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, was already in total isolation and they were a political dead corpse.

"They are proven criminals and fraudsters. While they kept claiming there was no money for young mothers and retirement pensions, it just emerged that bonuses in the amount of BGN 170 M have been given to State servants at the Finance Ministry and the National Revenue Agency, NRA. They created the first "private State" and ruled through fear. If anyone is being threatened, I ask them to inform BSP and we will protect you. We must end the abuse of this gang that treated us like slaves," he told the people in Razgrad.

Stanishev voiced firm belief there would be redemption and repentance.

The Socialist leader stated all parties have joined effort to have a fair vote and will pay a private Austrian company to do a parallel count of the ballots on May 12. He added that no politician in their right mind would enter a coalition with GERB.

According to him, BSP was running in the elections with a national mission – to rescue Bulgaria from a political clique.

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