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Petar Kostadinov

Editorial: Presidents and prime ministers

Fri, Nov 13 2009 09:58 CET byPetar Kostadinov 1220 Views 2 Comments
Conflicts between Bulgarian presidents and prime ministers have never helped either side.

After the first democratically elected president, Zhelyo Zhelev, publicly distanced himself from his fellow party member, prime minister Filip Dimitrov, in 1992, both suffered losses which sent them over the board of Bulgaria’s politics.

The same happened with president Petar Stoyanov and prime minister Ivan Kostov in 2001 when Stoyanov asked Kostov to name corrupt members of his cabinet which he did not do.

Now we have Prime Minister Boiko Borissov saying he was ready to support a motion for launching impeachment procedures against President Georgi Purvanov who has been criticising Borissov’s policy. The difference here is that Borissov and Purvanov come from opposing parties. The common consequence is that their conflict promises to have the same negative effect on the country’s political integrity which nobody needs.

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Anonymous Ilian Sun, Nov 15 2009 00:11 CET
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Agreed Jon.

Anonymous Jon Mills Fri, Nov 13 2009 21:03 CET
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I agree, but we cannot have a President publicly criticising the nations elected government simply because they are of different parties. The President is supposed to be above that sort of thing.

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