Ex Foreign Minister Set to Lead Bulgaria President's New Party - Report

Paramov concluded that the other candidate for leader would be former Interior Minister Rumen Petkov but added that he would not be chosen because of his bad image in Europe. Photo by BGNES

Kolio Paramov, the ex economic advisor to Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov, has stated that former Foreign Affairs Minister Ivaylo Kalfin is set to lead a new party set up by Socialist President Georgi Parvanov.

Finance expert Paramov, speaking on PRO.BG. said that BSP MEP Kalfin will be the likely leader of Parvanov’s new political project, which was first suggested by Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov in November 2009. No official reports of a plan by Parvanov to set up a political party have been confirmed.

Paramov concluded that the other candidate for leader would be former Interior Minister Rumen Petkov but added that he would not be chosen because of his bad image in Europe.

Paramov, who has been a Member of the Parliament from the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and was exposed as an agent of the Communist State Security, was hired by Borisov on January 25th, but left his post a week later after being criticized by rightist parties.

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