Bulgaria: EU - There are 34,000 bought votes in Bulgarian Socialist Party – this is bought vote: CEDB leader

Source: Focus Information Agency
There are 34,000 bought votes in Bulgarian Socialist Party – this is bought vote: CEDB leader
28 May 2014 | 01:10 | FOCUS News Agency

Sofia. "There are 34,000 bought votes in the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) – this is a bought vote," said Boyko Borisov, leader of the oppositional Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) and former prime minister, speaking for Nova TV.

"Either the votes were bought or his party does not want him," Mr Borisov said, commenting on the information the person occupying the fifteenth position in the socialists’ ticket may rank first among the representatives the BSP will send to Brussels.

According to Borisov, the 34,000 people who voted in favour of the fifteenth in the election ticket in terms of preferences, presented a controlled vote.

"Those who were told to vote in favour of [number] 15 most probably were those who were told how to vote. [Number] 15 were most probably miners, those who were told how to vote, to vote for [number] 15," Mr Borisov remarked.

"Or the party re-arranged them: with the preference inside [the ballot] the party told them it did not want Stanishev [Sergey Stanishev, BSP leader]," the CEDB chair said further.

"In case of snap [parliamentary] elections the results the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) party and the Reformist Bloc will achieve will be much higher," said CEDB leader Boyko Borisov.
In his words, they work for early elections and the CEDB has a majority.

"The Bulgarian voters that backed the CEDB and the Reformist Bloc are more than those that backed the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF). I want to achieve such a result to make the other [parties] want to help me govern," he said, too.

"Three [sociological] agencies said during the whole time [election campaign] the BSP would win the elections, which is ridiculous," the politician stressed.

"What right does Stanishev [Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have to nominate a European Commissioner?," wanted to know Boyko Borisov.

"An impudent person should be told he is an impudent person," Mr Borisov remarked.
In his words, a person who was defeated [in elections], was not wanted by his party and it was proven about whom he bought votes, cannot nominate a European Commissioner.

According to Mr Borisov, his party fights for a majority at the Parliament in order not to be dependent on others.
He believes voter turnout should stand at 70% to 80% on a snap elections date.

FOCUS News Agency recalls:
On Monday, May 26, it was announced voters who had voted in favour of the Coalition for Bulgaria, in which the BSP plays a main role and which was under number fifteen in ballots at the European elections, crossed not only number fifteen with the name of the formation, but also number fifteen in the preferences. They thus favoured the person occupying the fifteenth position in the Coalition for Bulgaria ticket, Momchil Nenkov, a name not so famous within the political life of the country. Mr Nenkov may thus rank first among the representatives the socialists are to send to the European Parliament.

Mr Borisov suggests the 34,000 voters that crossed number fifteen in the preferences might have been part of a bought vote.