Bulgaria's United People's Party Announces Vice Presidential Runner

Maria Kapon, leader of the Bulgarian United People's Party, has picked Nikolay Kisyov as her running mate for the 23 October presidential elections. Photo by BGNES

Colonel Nikolay Kisyov is the running mate of presidential candidate Maria Kapon, leader of Bulgaria's small United People's Party.

During his presentation, Kisyov noted that the place occupied by the Bulgarian Army in society was nothing like the status it would hold in a civilized state with democratic foundations.

The vice presidential candidate used the opportunity to present his ideas for the development of the army.

He has been contingent commander in the SFOR and Altea operations of NATO and the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kapon's nomination for the upcoming October 23 elections was announced Saturday.

Mid-August, the United People's Party announced a pre-election coalition with supporters of Kasim Dal, the ousted long-time vice-chair of ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms for the local elections set at the same date.

The United People's Party is not parliamentary represented. Kapon has been chairing it since its creation in 2008.

An economist by degree and profession, Maria Kapon was a MP in the 2005-9 Bulgarian Parliament for the rightist Union of Democratic Forces, until she left the Union to create UPP.

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