Survey: Bulgarians Want Stability but Doubt Government’s Full Term
A new Trend agency survey reveals that nearly half of Bulgarians prefer the current government to continue its mandate rather than holding early elections
Former Bulgarian ruling party GERB vice-chair and election campaign manager Tsvetan Tsvetanov vowed victory on the May 12 vote at party rally in Blagoevgrad Tuesday evening.
At the meeting, Tsvetanov reaffirmed his strong belief that anti-mafia police head Stanimir Florov, currently charged for corruption, is blameless and a top professional.
Tuesday the former Bulgarian Minister of Interior spent almost the entire day testifying to the prosection on Florov's case, as well as on a separate case relating to alleged rampant illicit police wiretapping while he was minister.
"Those cases are political fabrications of the Bulgairan Socialist Party and its leader Sergey Stanishev," stated Tsvetanov, drawing attention to the fact that the signals for both investigations came just ahead of the elections campaign.
The GERB strongman further suggested that the prosecution had acted out all took quickly in announcing results from the investigations, instead of waiting until after the elections.
"You will see that after May 12, those cases will just wither away," said Tsveatnov.
He also repeated his description of socialist leader Stanishev, who also chairs the Party of European Socialists, as "a mouthpiece for organized crime in Bulgaria."
GERB leader and former Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov spoke at the rally ahead of Tsvetanov, reiterating his full support for his aide and dubbing him "GERB's flagship."
According to Borisov, his 2009-13 cabinet had done "more for Bulgaria than what was done by cabinets in the 20 years before."
The GERB leader assured that his party is the only one in Bulgaria that has currently the resources and know-how to implement a stable and effective rule after the May vote.
Ivan Portnih, candidate of Bulgaria’s formerly ruling center-right party GERB, has won the battle for mayor of the coastal city of Varna by a slim margin.
Two candidates are vying to be mayor of Bulgaria's third-largest city and summer capital, Varna on the Black Sea coast.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office final count of the alleged illegal ballots discovered at a printing house in Kostinbrod hours ahead of the May 12 early elections is 480 000.
The number of apparently illegally printed ballots for Bulgaria's May 12 early general elections has swollen to at least 400,000, according to an announcement by the prosecution.
Bulgaria's formerly-ruling, center-right GERB Party has sent its claim contesting and asking to void the May 12 early general elections results to all European institutions.
Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has decided to try the claim contesting and asking to void the May12 early general elections results.
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