Borissov Challenges President on Legitimacy: "Respect the Parliament or Call New Elections"
At a lengthy national conference today, GERB regional coordinators, newly elected MPs
Bulgaria's Interior Minister and head of the ruling centrist-right GERB's electoral campaign Tsvetan Tsvetanov has declared he firmly supports the party's candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in the country, Rosen Plevneliev.
"I am the person that wants Plevneliev's victory most strongly," Tsvetanov, who initially was among the names rumored as GERB's potential candidates, has said, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.
On Friday, Tsvetanov said Plevneliev told him back in 2007 that three municipal councilmen from the City Hall, known as the "municipal brokers," asked him for a bribe of EUR 500 000 to secure his ownership of a small land plot in the Sofia Business Park, one of the top projects of the GERB presidential nomination as a businessman, before entering politics. He stated that Plevneliev had declined reporting the extortion case.
Tsvetanov revealed that while speaking for journalists in the second largest city of Plovdiv during the seminar "Elections 2011 – Mobilizing Institutions and Citizens for Honest and Free Election Process.
Tsvetanov made the revelation in an attempt to present Plevneliev as an honest businessman, who would never accept a bribe or participate in slander. However, the oppositional left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) suspected the Interior Minister of trying to frame his party's presidential runner.
On Wednesday, Tsvetanov also praised the acting skills of Stefan Danailov, a top Bulgarian actor who was endorsed as BSP's candidate for vice president.
The Commission for Protection of Personal Data has fined Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Ministry for making public nearly 37 000 permanent addresses in the country of Bulgarian voters residing abroad.
Bulgaria spared over BGN 8 M in state budget money by carrying out its local and presidential elections on the same date in 2011, the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated.
Former Justice Minister Margarita Popova was nominated by the ruling centrist-right party GERB to run for Vice President of Bulgaria in the elections that took place on October 23 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, former Bulgarian Regional Development Minister, was elected President on the ticket of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria part (GERB) on October 30 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, Bulgaria's newly elected President, will be officially sworn in on Thursday.
Bulgaria's President-elect and Vice President-elect, Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova, will take the oath of office before the National Assembly on Thursday, January 19.
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