Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bulgarian Socialist Party Leader Sergey Stanishev has alerted to irregularities in the Sofia Municipality contract for the Metro construction between ‘Obelya’ and ‘Nadezhda’. Stanishev confirmed that BSP would not be sending a signal to the Prosecutor’s Office because the competent authorities would have to take action at their own initiative. "There is a quite obvious...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Bulgaria's former PM and Socialist Party leader, Sergey Stanishev, has stated that the moves by right-wing parties to impeach President Georgi Parvanov were part of a revenge plot. Stanishev’s words came in response to earlier statements by the nationalists from Ataka and the rightist Blue Coalition that President Parvanov may be impeached over his involvement in violations of the UN Oil for...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Bulgaria Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has hit back at President Georgi Parvanov for suggesting that the new GERB government is targeting former PM Sergey Stanishev instead of mafia bosses. Tsvetanov, speaking after he submitted an integrated strategy to combat corruption and organized crime to Parliament, criticized Parvanov for not giving a view on people like Lyudmil Stoykov and Mario Nikolov,...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Bulgaria Socialist Party leader and former PM, Sergey Stanishev, has slammed the new center-right GERB government’s 2010 budget. Stanishev, speaking at a press conference in Sofia Monday, stated that the 2010 budget will lead to rising unemployment, bankrupt municipalities and a high level of poverty. He added that “On the contrary to the proclaimed policy of decentralization, the funds...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Bulgaria's president has harshly criticized the popular new centre-right government for its failure to impose measures to combat crime, saying the mafia bosses in the country remain untouchable. Talking at a round table with students, President Georgi Parvanov described as “fast” and “radical” the moves that the government took in connection with the missing classified reports...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Bulgaria's former government of PM Sergey Stanishev not only failed to give a charity donation that it promised to the Nova TV but it even did not included those funds in the state budget. This was revealed Saturday by Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, during his participation in a Nova TV talk show. “I got a letter from your boss Silva Zurleva that Nova TV hasn’t received...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Petkov Sertov, former director of the National State Security Agency (DANS), is expected to be probed by prosecutors over missing classified reports on crime, together with former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev. "There will be most probably two defendants in that case," Sofia City prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov announced on Wednesday. The case will set a precedent in Bulgarian justice practice...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The first item on the Bulgaria parliament weekly agenda will be for a vote on the Chief Prosecutor’s request for BSP leader Sergey Stanishev to give up his legal immunity. This proposal was put forward by the governing center-right GERB party on Wednesday after Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev, tabled to Parliament a request for the stripping of the MP’s legal immunity of...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Chief Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, stated Wednesday that it is too early to tell whether former Bulgaria PM Sergey Stanishev will end up in jail. Kokinov said that along with Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev, they had prepared a request to parliament for Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Stanishev to give up his MPs legal immunity on Tuesday. He added that this will now not be followed...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev, has signed a declaration saying he would give up his Member of Parliament immunity. Stanishev has submitted the declaration to Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva, the Bulgarian Socialist Party press center announced. His move has been caused by the formal demand of Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev that he be stripped off his immunity because of...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev, has tabled to Parliament a demand for stripping off the MP immunity of former Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev. If the MPs vote in favor of removing the immunity of the Socialist Party leader, Stanishev will be investigated on charges related to allegedly leaked or missing top secret intelligence reports. He will face changes on losing documents containing...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister, Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev, has described the first 100 days in office of his successor, Boyko Borisov, as three months of lies and failures. “The state is being governed from a TV screen, with the buttons of a mobile phone by one single person,” Stanishev said regarding the style of Borisov. He spoke after the first meeting of the new...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Former Bulgaria PM, Sergey Stanishev, has not proposed ex Ministers, Rumen Petkov and Rumen Ovcharov, to be part of the new Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Executive Board. At the meeting of the BSP National Council on Saturday, Stanishev left former Energy Minister Ovcharov and former Interior Minister Petkov out of his proposed 21 member executive board, Darik Radio reported. Eventually 17 of Stanishev's...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"Much Ado, Little Action" is the title of an article about the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov published Friday by the Austrian paper Die Presse as the new Bulgarian government is about to turn 100 days. The Die Presse article (available HERE in German) says that Borisov is mostly remarkable for attacking the previous government of the Socialist Party, and that even after 100 days...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov said that he will not be a witness at the trial of alleged Balkan Drug Lord Sreten Josic because he is not a civilian. Borisov was commenting on the former Bulgarian PM Sergey Stanishev’s statement suggesting that he should go to the Belgrade trial. He said; "I've arrested and extradited him as Interior Chief Secretary....
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