site.btaGERB Leader Calls for Common Sense as Parliament Is about to Try Elect Leader

GERB leader Boyko Borissov Wednesday called for "common sense from everyone" as Parliament votes to elect its leader. He was speaking to reporters in the corridors of Parliament.

He said that GERB's party structures have adopted a decision to nominate Nazaryan and that it was beyond his influence.

Borissov stated that when speaking in public, everyone should "watch their language," if what is said could bring harm. According to the leader of GERB, the question is no longer whether there will be a functioning parliament and Parliament chair, because "we all said that these elections are illegitimate".

Borissov said that the way out of the political crisis is for everyone to comply with the election results, noting that GERB is the first political force. He added: "Everyone knows about the [BGN] 18 billion hole in the budget, everyone knows there will be cuts, and everyone is waiting for some caretaker government to once again take the blows of the chaos and cacophony that four years have wreaked." According to Borissov, President Rumen Radev is not willing establish a party, because "[...] he will run straight into everything here in parliament, with 18 billion in debt and already real protest actions - of police officers, of servicepersons, of doctors, of teachers. People will not tolerate talking about this and that."

Asked about the election of prosecutor general by a Supreme Judicial Council Plenum with an expired mandate, Borissov said this is not the current topic, as there are no functioning government and parliament at the moment. He stated that he has suffered the most from the current prosecutor general since the Kostinbrod Affair.