Bulgaria's Socialist Leader: We Need Real Work, Not Epaulette Stars

Politics | June 30, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Socialist Leader: We Need Real Work, Not Epaulette Stars Socialist leader and prime minister Sergey Stanishev went to great lengths on Saturday to assure he wants to make everyone do "real work". Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia Photo Agency)

Socialist leader and prime minister Sergey Stanishev assured the changes in the executive body of the ruling party aim to make everyone do real work.

"We need an executive body to work as a team. We do not need hierarchy or posts that are like stars on an epaulette. Everyone should harness one's energy to work for achieving the goals set at the latest congress," Stanishev told journalists.

Bulgaria's ruling Socialist Party elected on Saturday a new executive body after all its members, except for the leader, resigned due to the party poor showing in the country's first MEP vote.

The new line-up, proposed by leader Sergey Stanishev, consists of twenty-two members and does away with his deputies, whose responsibilities will be taken over by the secretariat. Six secretaries of the party leadership were elected including Dimiter Dubov, Evgenii Ouzounov, Kristian Vigenin, Anton Kutev, Ivelin Nikolov and Katya Nikolova. Dimiter Dubov will be proposed to be Chief Secretary.

During Saturday's meeting all eyes were on former Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov, who was at the centre of a corruption scandal, and Interior Minister Rumen Petkov, rumoured to be in a long-standing feud.

Both of them will remain members of the Socialist Party executive bureau, it emerged after the results of the secret vote were announced.

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