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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Sergey Stanishev, launched a critical attack on the country's cabinet Saturday. Stanishev, who is also Bulgaria's previous Prime Minister, said at in international forum dedicated to the social responsibility of political parties that the government of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party is making serious retreat from the...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has admitted to skipping the parliamentary session, which adopted at first reading the budget bill for next year without much debate. "It is the obligation of the majority to defend what they propose. This is the first time that the rulers dare skip this," said Stanishev, whose party was forced out of office...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has congratulated Socialist Party candidate for Sofia Mayor, Georgi Kadiev, for his courage during the election campaign. “I want to congratulate Georgi Kadiev because he turned out to be the only real man in the BSP. Their leader Sergey Stanishev should have stood up and ran instead of hiding behind Kadiev ...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Sergey Stanishev, Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, declared Sunday he expected a second round of the Sofia Mayor Elections. “I voted for a change because in the last 20 years Sofia has been governed by rightists and the results are not very inspiring,” Stanishev stated upon voting. In his words, his party’s candidate, Georgi Kadiev, was the one who stood for change....
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Bulgaria Socialist Party leader and former PM, Sergey Stanishev, has written an article entitled "No more independence ... there is only Boyko", the BSP press center reported Saturday. The article is highly critical of PM Boyko Borisov and the new center-right GERB government’s first 100 days in power and Stanishev also defends his own record as PM: “Boyko Borisov may be able...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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