site.btaBSP Deputy National Assembly Chair Dragomir Stoynev Calls on Borissov to Personally Hold Cabinet Talks

Deputy National Assembly Chair Dragomir Stoynev from BSP for Bulgaria called on GERB and their leader to assume their functions and make efforts to form a government, because at this stage it seems that they themselves do not wish to have one.

In a Bulgarian National Radio interview, Stoynev said that GERB Leader Boyko Borissov, should personally hold the talks and put on the table what responsibilities his party can take on for the management of the country in the coming years.

"At this stage, if we look at the situation in Bulgaria, there should not be new elections," the politician argued.

Stoynev said that all right-wing forces in Parliament are obliged to make concrete efforts to form a cabinet. At this stage, as a left-wing party, the Bulgarian Socialist Party has no place in negotiations with the right-wing forces until they have exhausted all options. "If someone wants our support for a specific policy, it should be made official,"  he noted.

The BSP is currently in a very difficult situation after the elections, Korneliya Ninova resigned as chair, Stoynev commented on internal party problems. After such results, it is unlikely that there is a European leader who would run again, but, after all, it is a matter Ninova's choice, he said, noting that electing a new BSP leader is still three months away and there are more pressing matters. 

Stoynev argued that there should be a conversation with the other left-wing formations about unification, but cautiously so, because for the most part these formations have conducted their campaign on the back of the BSP. At BSP's annual national rally at the largest ideological monument of the communist regime in Bulgaria, Buzludzha, the party will invite all left-wing formations, and left-wing politicians who have left the formation, to talk and see if they could support each other, Stoynev said.