Bulgaria's Ex PM Expects to Be 'Blamed for Everything'

Bulgaria's ex PM and Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev said that he expected to be "blamed for everything" by the Borisov government. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's ex PM and Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev said that he expected to be “blamed for everything” commenting on information that he will face charges after the May holidays.

One of the major Bulgarian dailies reported Thursday that Stanishev will be prosecuted over mishandling a top secret intelligence report of the State National Security Agency DANS, and that he is going to be called to testify after next week's holidays and will probably be charged. If charged, Stanishev faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

Stanishev ironically said that he will be blamed for leaving “only BGN 8.2 B in the fiscal reserve, paying just BGN 2 B of Bulgaria's foreign debt and cutting the taxes.”

Earlier in April, Bulgaria's ex PM and Socialist Party leader Stanishev asked for an investigation of the allegations that BGN 2 B of Bulgaria's fiscal reserve have been spent by the government of the GERB party in less than a year after it took over in the summer of 2009.

“Borislav Gutsanov was arrested so GERB can gain political advantages. The ruling party is slowly turning Bulgaria into a police state” said Stanishev in Varna Thursday referring to Borislav Gutsanov, chair of Varna municipal council and top member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, who was arrested earlier in April in a high-profile police raid codenamed Operation Jellyfish on charges of criminal breach of trust.