Daniel Mitov Ready for Foreign Minister Role Amid Geopolitical Test in Bulgaria
Daniel Mitov, Deputy Chairman of GERB, has expressed his readiness to assume the position of Acting Foreign Minister
Momchil Nekov, the No. 15 candidate in the list of the Bulgarian Socialist Party for the European elections, will take his seat in the European Parliament, reports Focus agency.
After days of speculations in the Bulgarian-language media, Nekov, who won the preferential vote of the BSP supporters and displaced the party leader Sergei Stanishev from the top position on the ballot, broke his silence and said he got the unanimous support of the Sofia party organization and will become an MEP.
“I would like to state clearly, that I do not intend to participate in other people's battles and get entangled in controversies,” Nekov told Focus.
Nekov thanked those who voted for him and promised them that their voice will be heard in Europe.
The BSP leadership tried to explain the landslide preferential vote for Nekov with a lucky coincidence of the party number and Nekov's on the ballot – 15 and claimed the voters got confused.
Boyko Borisov, leader of the opposition party GERB, which won the European elections, accused BSP of deliberately controlling the vote by instructing the voters in some polling stations to pick a number from the preferential list.
Data of the Central Electoral Commission shows that voters of almost all parties and coalitions got somewhat confused and crossed out both the party number and the number of the candidate, coinciding with it. The largest number of confused voters, however, were those of BSP – 68%.
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About 1 200 000 "phantom voters" can be found in Bulgarian elections lists, Mihail Konstantinov, formerly a high-profile official in charge of elections, believes.
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) starts receiving documents for the registration of political parties and coalitions for the early elections on October 5.
A majority in the European Parliament has approved Jean-Claude Juncker to be President of the European Commission, reports BBC.
The European Parliament is expected to approve on Tuesday the nomination of former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.
Former Environment Minister Iskra Mihaylova has become the nomination of the European Parliament's ALDE group to chair the Regional Policy Committee.
The European Parliament has re-elected Martin Schulz for a second presidential term, with 409 votes from the 751 MEPs.