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RIGHTIST PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE REFUSES TO RUN FOR ELECTIONS IN BULGARIA

Thu, Jun 15 2006 11:37 CET

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Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) representative Dimitar Abadzhiev said that he refused to be nominated for presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.

Abadzhiev was among the people proposed during the months-long negotiations of the rightist parties in Bulgaria to select a single presidential candidate and unite the right-wing electorate.

Abadzhiev was nominated for vice-president to Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) leader Petar Stoyanov. Abadzhiev said that he was flattered by the high evaluation of his colleagues but refused have his name associated with Stoyanov and the presidential elections.

The political confrontations of the rightist parties over the candidatures was among Abadzhiev's reasons to turn down the offer, Darik Radio reported. Abadzhiev was quoted as saying that his sole purpose as politician was to make sure President Georgi Purvanov was not re-elected.

He added that he was still optimistic the next Bulgarian president would be from the rightist parties. According to Abadzhiev, the right-wing organisations in Bulgaria should demonstrate clear will to select a single nomination without resorting to preliminary elections within the parties.


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