site.btaBSP Legal Advisor: Acting Party Chair Has to Receive Authorization from Outgoing Chair

"The BSP statute is clear, the laws in the country as well. There is a resignation, there is a temporary representative and acting head appointed by the National Council until a direct election is held. The only action called for by the party's statute and reflecting the will of the governing body, the National Council, is for the outgoing chair, Korneliya Ninova, to authorize the acting leader, Atanas Zafirov," BSP's chief legal adviser Aglika Videnova said in a statement. Videnova has been in charge of the party's registration process for various elections for the past 21 years. Her position was made public by the BSP press centre on Thursday.

Videnova warned that any other action would throw the party into chaos and could actually prevent it from participating in the snap general elections on October 27. "As the BSP's chief legal advisor for 21 years, I have rarely dared to comment on cases related to the party. But today is different. I did not believe that after 21 years, there would be a danger that I would not be able to register the BSP to run in the elections. There have always been conflicts between individuals and party leaders. But no matter how much they have argued, they have never placed in their battles the legal possibility for the BSP to participate in elections," Videnova said.

"I call on all the previous and present leaderships of the party not to make the BSP and the thousands of awaiting with pain socialists hostage to their egos and interpersonal insults," Videnova was adamant.