Commissioner Rules Out Taking over Bulgaria PM Office

"I have a job, I am doing it the best I can," Georgieva said in an interview for Darik Radio, when asked whether she can be appointed Bulgaria's prime minister, should Boyko Borisov run and win the presidential elections. Photo by BGNES

EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, who recently became the first woman to top the most popular politicians' ranking in Bulgaria in 10 years, has denied rumors she may be the country's next prime minister.

"I have a job, I am doing it the best I can," Georgieva said in an interview for Darik Radio, when asked whether she can be appointed prime minister, should Boyko Borisov run and win the presidential elections.

"I want to build a European prevention system, which should work really well, so that we can show where the risks lie. If I can do so that fewer people lose their lives, I will have done a really good job. This is the task I am facing the next few years," she said.

Georgieva has been rumored time and again in the Bulgarian media as a likely candidate of the ruling center-right GERB party in the Bulgarian Presidential Elections in the fall of 2011, a scenario, which has repeatedly ruled out.

Internet forums have been overflowing with calls for Georgieva to run in this year's presidential elections ever since she won at the end of last year the title of 'European of the Year' and "Commissioner of the Year', awarded by Brussels-based media European Voice, triggering pride and enthusiasm in her home country Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has expressed conviction that his party has among its ranks at least five likely nominees able to sweep the elections for the high, though largely ceremonial, office of president. Borisov has even hinted to journalists that he himself might run for president.

The ruling party GERB is unlikely to nominate Interior Minister Tsvetanov, as initially planned, because of the string of discrediting information revealed about him recently.

Meanwhile it emerged that notorious Bulgarian businessman, ex-secret agent and suspected crime boss Aleksei Petrov and nationalist leader Volen Siderov will run for president in the autumn.

Incumbent Socialist President Georgi Parvanov was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2006 and isn't eligible to run in 2011 vote.

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