BSP leader Kornelia Ninova announced that she has information that President Rumen Radev is organizing a “mayor’s party” for the local elections.
“Now the president is creating a mayoral party. He is creating a party to participate in the local elections. He has no right, but neither did he have the right for the “Left”, nor did he have the right for “Continuing the change”. Our Executive Bureau travels around the country, we see mayors who they share that they are called to meetings, to conversations. I will not tell you the names of the mayors, nor the municipalities. But the fact is that this is done”she told Nova News.
This is not the first time in recent weeks that it has been rumored that Radev intends to participate through his own candidates in the local vote. In the recording of a PP party meeting released by Radostin Vassilev, party co-chairman Asen Vassilev says:
“I don’t know if you watched the opening of the hall in Burgas – the mayor of GERB invited the president, not Boyko Borisov. And not a single person from GERB, because he will be an independent candidate to Radev. Because Radev has caught Geshev on one side, caught he has Koprinkov in his other hand. And with one hand he bribes them, with the other hand he threatens them. And this is currently happening to absolutely all Gerber mayors. And what will happen is that instead of having GERB 25% we will have GERB 15% and 10% pro-Kremlin party of Radev”.
Unofficially, it has been rumored for months that Radev is considering running mayoral candidates in the local elections through initiative committees. One of the names mentioned is that of the former acting Minister of the Interior, Ivan Demerdzhiev, who is said to be nominated as a candidate for mayor of Plovdiv. According to Mediapool, he has indeed received offers, but is turning them down for now.
On Saturday, Cornelia Ninova also said that she supports a possible constitutional change to abolish caretaker governments.
“The caretaker government in the constitution was not intended for what happened now. It was intended as temporary and to hold elections, and the situation in the country led to caretaker governments going far beyond what they were created for in the constitution.”Ninova pointed out.
