Bulgarian Socialists Hail PES Leader Ahead of Election
Domestic | January 14, 2012, Saturday // 16:56| viewsPES and BSP leader Sergey Stanishev speaking at a sitting of the Bulgarian Socialists' National Council Saturday. Photo by BGNES
The recent election of Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev to chair the Party of European Socialists is both an honor for Bulgaria and a great responsibility for the party, states the party in a declaration.
Saturday the National Council of the Bulgarian Socialists held a sitting to discuss strategic matters, in particular their future actions as Bulgaria's largest opposition party.
The National Council also adopted a declaration addressed to the Socialists' supporters in Bulgaria, in which it vowed to pursue its principles in defending freedom and solidarity.
"BSP will be opposing the anti-social policy and anti-democratic methods by which Bulgaria is ruled [by center-right GERB party]. Today Bulgaria needs us to defend democratic principles, constitutionalism and the very rights of its citizens," states the declaration.
"The crisis that the European Union is currently facing make it ever clearer that it cannot stand for economic and political interests only. It rather must base itself firmly on common values - freedom, justice, solidarity, equal rights and the rule of law."
The declaration also lauds the election of leader Stanishev to chair PES until a regular congress in the fall, and states that this is a high distinction for the party as a modern European leftist entity.
Speaking at the sitting, Stanishev, who was Bulgaria's PM 2005-9, proposed that the Socialists create a shadow cabinet to propose concrete and thoroughgoing alternatives to the policies of PM Boyko Borisov's cabinet.
Parvanov is also believed to have the ambition to face Stanishev and reclaim the leader's position of the Bulgarian Socialist Party at a congress the Socialists will hold, most probably in May.
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