Stanishev Government

Petar Kurumbashev will gain a seat as member of the European Parliament after Iliana Iotova assumes the Bulgarian Vice President's duties this Sunday, the Central Election Commission has said.

Kurumbashev's name was the fourth on the Bulgarian Socialist Part (BSP) ticket for the EP elections in May 2014, when the BSP mustered enough support to send four lawmakers.

The party of Bulgarian President (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov will convene on Sunday to elect a new chairman.

Its leader Parvanov said late last year he would step down to give way to younger generations.

But deputy chairs Rumen Petkova and Ivaylo Kalfin and Parvanov himself are also among the nominations submitted by party members.

A nationalist party leader in Bulgaria has declared his readiness to become Prime Minister if the coalition he co-chairs manages to set up a government.

It is our conviction that this Parliament cannot form a new government, given the declaration of three of the political forces - GERB, BSP and DPS that they will not support and participate in the forming of a new government, stated the Deputy Chairman of ABV Rumen Petkov after consultations with President Plveneliev.

It is worth remembering that "socialists were already Presidents of Bulgaria" but it remained a "docile" NATO member and implemented EU directives unperturbed, a Russian daily says.

The opinion piece is a comment on the win of socialist-backed candidate Rumen Radev in the first round of Bulgaria's presidential election and the prospect of him winning the runoff vote.

Novinite publishes profiles of presidential candidates running in the forthcoming elections on November 06.

We continue with Ivaylo Kalfin, a former Foreign Minister and MEP running on the ticket of President (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov's party.

ABV will announce its nomination for President on Thursday.

Former Social Minister in the second Borissov cabinet, Ivaylo Kalfin, has the greatest chance of being nominated. He was nominated for President by BSP back in 2011. Another possible candidate is ABV's parliamentary deputy - General Miho Mihov.

Bulgaria's last King and former Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has called for support for the candidacy of Irina Bokova for United Nations Secretary General.

It's very important to support Bokova, not just because she is Bulgarian, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha told reporters in Sofia on Saturday evening.

The biggest opposition party in Bulgaria, the BSP, is set to hold a new Congress and elect a leader, less than two years after incumbent Mihail Mikov took over the party.

This was announced by Mikov himself, at a meeting of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) over the weekend.

The Bulgarian cabinet is to hold on Friday an emergency meeting to vote on next year's budget, which will result in a bigger expenditure in healthcare, education, and defense.

More money will be allocated to a number of ministries next year, but also to social workers, if the bill is approved.