Socialist Chief: Bulgaria Lives in Paradox

Domestic | May 21, 2013, Tuesday // 11:55|  views

The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, the Party of European Socialists, PES, and former Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev, photo by BGNES

Every Bulgarian politician would do anything possible to work on a better future of the country, despite political differences, Socialist leader, Sergey Stanishev, believes.

The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, the Party of European Socialists, PES, and former Prime Minister addressed Tuesday the Members of the Parliament, as the 42nd General Assembly convened for the first time.

"Bulgaria is holding its breath in watching us – the Members of the Parliament - to see the spirit with which we are starting. They are watching us tired, exhausted, and desperate over the poverty, the misery, and the insecurity of what is to come; over the lack of justice and their crushed dignity," stated Stanishev.

He noted that the situation in the country was paradoxical as thousands of Bulgarians protested in huge rallies demanding change, change that was yet to happen.

The Socialist chief accused the formerly-ruling centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, of living in the parallel reality of building infrastructure in a country where people are suffocated by poverty.

"We live now in the paradox of GERB narrowly winning the May 12 general elections, but there is no triumphant winner. We also do not know how they won – fairly or by vote buying? In the last couple of months, the unemployment rate jumped to 14%. GERB turned Bulgaria into an undemocratic country and actually distanced it from European values. The choice now is between one party's hunger for power and the need to resurrect the State," Stanishev concluded.

In addition to GERB and BSP, two other parties made their way into the Parliament – the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, and the far-right, nationalist Ataka.

GERB gathered 30.503% of the votes in Sunday's general election, final results show.

Left-wing BSP is next with 26.614%, followed by DPS with 11.293% and the far-right, nationalist Ataka - 7.302%. All other parties running in Sunday's vote have remained below the 4% election threshold.

According to the final CEC count – GERB + Ataka will have together 120 seats and DPS + BSP – another 120 in the 240-seats unicameral Parliament.

The number of MP seats each of the four parties have won are as follows – 97 for GERB, 84 for BSP, 36 for DPS, and 23 for Ataka.

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