/ world today news/ “I was joking,” explained Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to Bulgarian journalists in Munich on Friday regarding the teasing of the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, who offered him Russian citizenship so that he could vote for the Russian president.
Zakharova’s comment was on the occasion of the speech of the Bulgarian Prime Minister during the presentation of the Bulgarian EU Presidency in Brussels at the beginning of February. Then Borisov said: “You know, a person cannot choose two things – his parents and the president of Russia.”
“Putin should know that there are a lot of jokes, especially about elections. I was joking,” Borissov explained. He stressed that he has a very good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and hoped he understood the joke.
“This joke applies to every leader, and to Merkel, and to me, if you will,” Borissov said. “Self-irony is important,” he concluded.
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