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Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and Regional Minister, Rosen Plevneliev (left), at the press conference Sunday when the latter's nomination to run for president on the ticket of the ruling GERB was announced. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has voiced dissatisfaction with the first election campaign video clip of his presidential nomination, Regional Minister, Rosen Plevneliev.
Borisov says the video clip looks like it was made for the opposition left-win Bulgarian Communist Party, BSP, adding he disliked the "fake" behavior of Plevneliev.
In a TV interview for Nova Televizia Sunday evening the PM further stressed he was unhappy that the shooting of the clip took a whole hour and half, and during this time the Minister had been away from his job duties.
The filming of the clip actually became the strongest hint of who the most likely presidential candidate of the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party could be after GERB kept it secret for many months, until announcing it on September 4. The shots in the clip include popular locations in Sofia where passersby became curious and realized what was going on.
The GERB nomination for Vice President, Margarita Popova, has her own clip. Until know she was Justice Minister.
The "Plevneliev" clip first appeared on You Tube Sunday, but was later removed and replaced with one titled "A Macedonian in Bulgaria / Еден Македонец во Бугарија". The Minister was born in the town of Gotse Delchev, in southern Bulgaria, an area called Bulgarian Macedonia.
The clip reappeared Monday morning and can be seen HERE.
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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.
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