site.btaOutgoing BSP Leader Ninova Says There Is No Danger of Her Party Registering Two Different Candidate Lists

Commenting on the situation in the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), outgoing BSP leader Korneliya Ninova told bTV that there is no danger of the party registering two different candidate lists for the October 27 snap elections. "For now, I am the chair of the party and the CEC [the Central Election Commission] wants a document. I have this document, my colleagues do not have it," she said on Monday, answering a question whether she is going to be the person who will register BSP for the elections.

On Sunday, the BSP National Council voted to expel Ninova from the party. Following the decision, she told the media that "legally, the party is in an absolutely unprecedented situation - a chair, who was expelled from the party, is still a chair by court registration".

Ninova said that parallels could not be made with what was happening in the two MRF factions because BSP has only one chair, while in the MRF there were two chairpersons with equal rights to register lists of candidates separately.

Ninova assured the BSP supporters that the party will be registered for the upcoming elections.