site.btaBSP Will Be Constructive, Loyal Opposition - Mikov

BSP Will Be Constructive, Loyal
Opposition -
Mikov


Sofia, October 6 (BTA) - After Sunday's parliamentary elections,
Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Mihail Mikov told a news
conference the party would participate in talks on national
priorities but would not get involved in secret talks on a
distribution of power. "Voters cast us in the role of
opposition," said Mikov.

"We will be a constructive, loyal opposition, which will support
all the nationally responsible decisions in legislation," Mikov
added.

New elections will not be good for the country, he said.

"The BSP is aware that changes are needed. The results of
today's elections are not a trend, to some extent they are an
assessment of our participation in the previous government and
our relations with our partner," the BSP leader said, referring
to the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF).

The BSP is not falling apart. The BSP - Left Bulgaria coalition
has a serious ambition to be an authentic representative of
leftist-minded people, Mikov told the news conference.

Asked if the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is likely to
participate in the next government, the party's deputy leader
Yanaki Stoilov commented that this could have been on the
agenda if the BSP had had a stronger showing. Now that GERB has
won twice as many votes as the BSP, the latter cannot
participate in a coalition on an equal footing, said Stoilov.
He wished GERB success and noted that Bulgaria should seek
stability.

On his way to the news conferences after Sunday's parliamentary
elections, Stoilov said: "In this situation we cannot impose a
political course on the future government, we must stand up for
the commitments we made to people."

Earlier on Sunday BSP deputy leader Yanaki Stoilov commented
that this is the BSP's worst loss in parliamentary elections.
He attributed it to the way the party participated in
government in the past year, its position on the Ukraine crisis
and the state of the BSP's local chapters in many places.

"People were obviously angered by the BSP's government with the
MRF because they took it for 'more of the same'," Stoilov said,
referring to the three-party coalition (2005-2009) including
the BSP and the MRF, and Plamen Oresharski's government
(2013-2014) backed by the two parties.

He said the BSP leadership was responsible for the party's
showing in the elections.