Bulgaria's Justice Minister to Get on Ruling Party's Presidency Ticket - Report

Justice MInister Margarita Popova is reported to be the most likely VP candidate of the ruling party GERB. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's Justice Minister Margarita Popova is the most likely Vice Presidential candidate of the ruling center-right party GERB in the October 23 elections, unconfirmed reports say.

Thus, the most likely presidential candidate couple of the party of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will include Popova and Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev as the candidate for President, according to Saturday's reports in the Bulgarian press citing anonymous sources.

The reports come a day before Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is scheduled to announce his party's candidate for President. The long-anticipated announcement was set by Borisov himself for September 4, less than two months before the October 23 elections, because, in his own words, that would be when the reconstruction of the GERB party's central office would be completed.

A day earlier, on Friday, Plevneliev was reported to have been caught shooting an election campaign video at several locations around Sofia.

If Plevneliev is nominated by GERB to run for the Presidency, his position will most likely be occupied by his current deputy, Lilyana Popova.

The Bulgarian weekly Capital writes Saturday that if Popova is nominated for Vice President, that will remove from the government one of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov's most serious opponents, and "will given him the opportunity to appoint a non-critical and loyal person that will in turn be devastating for the anyway troubled justice system."

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