LIDER Set to Go It Alone in Bulgaria General Elections

The LIDER Party of the Bulgarian tycoon Hristo Kovachki, has announced that it will be entering this summer's general elections alone after leaving the ‘Forward" coalition last week.

Kovachki is reputedly confident that LIDER can hold its own against the other main parties and can reach the 8% barrier that will allow them into parliament.

The reason cited for the break up of the ‘Forward" coalition is the unwavering request on the part of LIDER that the other parties from the coalition - the nationalist VMRO, the Agrarian People's Union, and the movement "Georgiovden" appear on the ballot under the LIDER registration.

"There are many reason for the split, one of them, the legal saga surrounding Kovachki, which gives society the impression that the movement is a business project, not a political organization," the leader of VMRO, Krasimir Karakachanov, is quoted as saying.

Karakachanov was backed up by the leader of Georgiovden", Petar Stoyanovich, who said that the break-up was not due to the raising of the coalition threshold to 8%, but rather because the movement did not want to participate in "somebody's private project to launder certain biographies and in a project where people thought they can manage a political organization as a company.

Meanwhile, "Forward" is allegedly holding talks with GERB in order to expand its pre-election coalition.The movement hopes to reach an agreement with GERB for, at least, common majority candidates.

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