site.btaSocialist Leader Proposes New Organization against Corruption

Mount Bouzloudja, Central Bulgaria, July 29 (BTA) - Kornelia Ninova on Saturday urged her fellow Socialists to start a discussion in August about setting up a new organization against corruption in Bulgaria. The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) proposed that the anti-corruption unit be taken out of the State Agency for National Security and the unit director be designated by President Rumen Radev, whom Ninova described as "a decent and dignified man."

The members of the new organization should be elected by a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly, she proposed.

Ninova was speaking at an annual BSP gathering in Mount Bouzloudja, marking the 126th anniversary of the establishment of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, the BSP's predecessor. Some 50,000 Socialists joined the event which proceeded under the motto "United for the Bulgaria that We Love," the organizers said. Former BSP leader Mihail Mikov was not at the rally. Party of European Socialists President Sergei Stanishev was also absent, but he greeted the Bulgarian Socialists with a written message.

Socialists from Romania, Macedonia and Greece attended the gathering.