Reelected Bulgaria Socialist Leader Stanishev Vows Responsibility
Domestic | October 18, 2009, Sunday // 21:12| viewsSergey Stanishev has been reelected as Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. Photo by BGNES
The reelected Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, has declared he understood his overwhelming responsibility.
“I remember the several elections that I have gone through. In the first one, the delegates played in the dark, and without the support of Georgi Parvanov (former BSP leader, current Bulgarian President – editor’s note), hardly anyone would have backed my bid,” Stanishev said recalling the first time he became Chair of the Socialists in 2001.
“I realize my responsibility very well, and I think it would be a desertion if I withdrew in such a hard moment for the BSP,” he said shortly after his reelection by the emergency Party Congress Sunday night thanking the delegates for supporting him.
The ex-PM also vowed to embark upon a course of restoring people’s trust in the Socialist Party while stressing he had noted all criticism, and would do his best to account for it.
Stanishev received 455 votes out of a total of 781 legitimate votes cast by the Party Congress delegates, which is about 60%. Thus, he did not have to face any of the other three bidders in a run-off.
Tatyana Donchev received 129 votes, or 16%; Yanaki Stoilov got 99 votes, or 15%; Mladen Chervenyakov received 78 votes, or 10%.
A total of 894 delegates were elected to attend the Congress; 799 cast a vote but 18 of the ballots were illegitimate.
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