site.btaGERB Determined Not to Form Government with Less than 100 MPs after Oct. 5 Elections

GERB Determined Not to Form Government  with Less than 100 MPs after Oct. 5 Elections


Sofia, October 2 (BTA) - GERB are not going to try to form a
coalition government or participate in a coalition government,
if they win less then 100 seats in the next Parliament. This
transpired in a television interview with GERB leader Boyko
Borissov on Thursday, a day after the influential Alfa Research
polling agency said his party would have less than 100
representatives in the 240-seat legislature after the October 5
early general elections.

Similar projections were released Thursday by the Mediana agency
which said GERB will have 90 MPs.

"If we have 110-115 MPs, it will be my obligation to try find a
way out for my country. If, however, we have less than 100, let
the others form a government and I will support them from the
sideline," Borissov said on bTV.

He said a failure to form a government - any government - and
new elections is a very likely scenario and added that voters
must show maximum turnout.

He reiterated his position that he has always seen the Reformist
Bloc as a key partner for GERB but, unfortunately, its leaders
"for one and a half months now have been keeping themselves
preoccupied with us and don't even say a word [of criticism]
about [former socialist leader Sergei] Stanishev and [former
prime minister Plamen] Oresharski". "They put forward conditions
and they are not even capable of electing their leader. It
seems to me GERB is their only opponent," Borissov said.

He was aparently referring to a set of questions and conditions
which the Reformists want met in exchange for becoming GERB's
partner. One of them is that a future GERB-dominated government
should not have Borissov as the Prime Minister.