site.btaABV - Movement 21 Coalition Says Election Result "Disappointing"

ABV - Movement 21 Coalition Says Election Result "Disappointing"

Sofia, March 28 (BTA) - ABV party leader Konstantin Prodanov called the election result of the ABV - Movement 21 coalition "disappointing" and falling "a long way short of the parties' potential". The coalition took 1.55 per cent of all votes.

Prodanov thanked the 55,000 voters who saw the centre-left coalition as something authentic and backed it in Sunday's parliamentary elections. "They give us grounds to believe that we should go forward," he told a news conference on Tuesday.

He said he had received quite a few alerts to vote rigging, especially during the vote count. Also, the coalition did not have enough time to reach out to people. The ABV National Council is expected to analyse the election result on Saturday.

Movement 21 deputy leader Daniel Georgiev also called the election showing "unexpectedly poor". The attempt to form a coalition which comes up with pragmatic ideas and is an alternative to the status quo and the bipolar model did not command sufficient support from voters, he said.

Prodanov commented that the elections reproduced the same deformed pattern as before. He expects Boyko Borissov's third cabinet to be short-lived, so that early elections will be needed in the near future.

The two parties remain open to interaction, although they signed a coalition agreement just for these parliamentary elections.

On a different note, Prodanov said ABV would ask the Prosecutor General and the State Agency for National Security to consider what they claim is the unconstitutional nature of the DOST Alliance following "Turkey's gross interference through it in Bulgaria's internal affairs".