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Changes in BSP's Leadership after a National Council Meeting

Sofia, May 14 (BTA) - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova has four deputies in her party's Executive Bureau. In addition to Stefan Danailov, they are Deniza Slateva, Vladimir Moskov and Kiril Dobrev.

The National Council adopted on Sunday changes to BSP's Executive Bureau on Ninova's proposal, the party said. The newly elected members are Vladimir Moskov from Gotse Delchev, Atanaska Teneva from Plovdiv, and Apostol Dimitrov from Varna. The following are keeping their positions in BSP's Executive Bureau and
Parliamentary Group: Stefan Danailov, Valeri Zhablyanov, Dragomir Stoynev and Kroum Zarkov. The following MPs were relieved from the Executive Bureau: Krassimir Yankov, Ivan Chenchev, Stoyan Mirchev, Alexander Simov and Vessela Lecheva. Kiril Dobrev has expressed readiness to leave Parliament, but is keeping his place in BSP's Executive Bureau, the party said.

Ninova proposed the changes to the Executive Bureau's composition after some of its members were elected as MPs, in order to avoid concentrating all positions in the hands of the same people.

In just around a month after the elections, some 2.5 million Bulgarians found themselves misled by the election campaign promises and post-election actions of GERB and the United Patriots, said Ninova after her party's National Council.

Ninova listed among the unfulfilled promises the United Patriots' intentions to raise the minimum monthly pension to 300 leva. It is illogical that the judicial reform was patched to the Foreign Ministry, she said, assuming that the incumbents see the reform merely as public relations for in front of their foreign partners, and not as an effort aimed at justice for the Bulgarian citizens. GERB and the United Patriots also backed away from their election campaign promise that a police officer will be present in every settlement, Ninova went on to say.

Commenting the bill submitted by GERB to amend the Election Code and introduce a majoritarian voting system, Ninova said that GERB are submitting it because they very well know it won't pass, while the Patriots are not supporting it, because if they do they will lose power. The Socialist leader reaffirmed her party's position in favour of a mixed system with elements of proportional and majoritarian representation.

Ninova accused the incumbents in nominating an EU commissioner without informing the National Assembly, with which they showed that Parliament does not matter in the Parliamentary Republic of Bulgaria.

According to BSP, the caretaker government was clearly Right-centrist and failed to address the severe democratic deficits, observed in the past few elections, she said.

The check conducted by Ognyan Gerdjikov's caretaker cabinet on the work of Borissov's previous government focused on the ministries headed by the Reformist Bloc, which allowed to transfer the responsibility for the shortcomings of Borissov's second cabinet to the disintegrating Bloc.

BSP's National Council adopted the party's budget until this year's end. For the first time a fund is established for political initiatives, the party said in a press release.