The opposition is focusing its energy and attack where it is undoubtedly clear that neither the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), nor the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), nor the constitution would allow the head of the state to be impeached, Sofia mayor and Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) leader Boiko Borissov said in the morning talk show of the private broadcaster bTV.

At the same, the Cabinet was somewhat left behind and allowed to breathe some fresh air, he said. The real problem was not the President, because he did not deal with funds or judicial system reforms. “He was doing his representative job even too well. The real problem came from the thieves in the Cabinet," Borissov said.

Borissov said that he agreed with the proposition of the leader of the ultra-nationalist party Ataka Volen Siderov for the opposition to leave Parliament.

When there is a certain problem being discussed by society, it should meet an adequate reaction from the respective institution, National Movement for Stability and Progress parliamentary floor leader Plamen Mollov told Bulgarian National Television (BNT), commenting on the relation of President Georgi Purvanov with a businessman allegedly involved in European Union funds malfeasances. President Purvanov is the highest-level institution in Bulgaria and he should give an explanation, he said.

Former deputy finance minister Georgi Kadiev told BNT that “there is one conclusion in the European Commission’s report on Bulgaria that is absolutely true and I know this from experience, it is the lack of motivation in the administration and the lack of administrative capacity”. Administration in Bulgaria was low-paid and susceptible to bribery, he said.

Violators should be sanctioned; the problem was that these sanctions should be balanced, Bulgarian Industrial Association deputy chair Kamen Kolev said in the morning show of BNT, commenting on the sanctions that the EU imposed on Bulgaria because of EU funds malfeasances. “Depriving a big number of beneficiaries from funding will not be fair,” he said. “The guilt is individual, so punishment should also be individual."