Iliana Yotova Tops BSP MEPs Election Ticket, Tatyana Doncheva Runs Fourth
Up to now leader of BSP’s list for Brussels Christian Vigenin is now second in the row, Atanas Paparizov and Marusia Lyubcheva drop out. In DSB Svetoslav Malinov replaces Konstantin Dimitrov
Bulgaria-News | 07.04.2009 17:49After the Ahead Coalition, two other parties arranged their election tickets of European Parliament candidate members. These are the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB). Despite the prognoses of all sociologists that the two separate votes for European and Bulgarian parliaments would be somewhat of a rehearsal for the national general election. Most parties prefer the traditional approach and more or less use it by betting on familiar faces and proven figures.
BSP’s MEP ticket is obviously already composed, although municipal conferences are currently being held on nominating candidates. Yet the ticket is to be officially presented on April 10. Probably until then the party will discuss the positions after the fifth, which are practically unelectable. Yet the list of the Socialists’ top candidates for the European Parliament can be considered fixed.
Two of BSP’s current MEPs – Atanas Paparizov and Marusia Lyubcheva – drop off the MEP candidate lists,
yet it’s not clear so far will the two be at all included in the EP election ticket or they will be compensated with electable positions on the national parliament tickets. So their fourth and fifth positions for Brussels fall to, accordingly, Tatyana Doncheva and Georgi Pirinski. All know about lawyer Bliznashki’s close relations with Parliament Speaker Georgi Pirinski as of the times of United Social Democracy fraction in the party.
Shuffled are also the two top positions. Iliana Yotova will most likely top the MEPs ticket, and up to now leader Christian Vigenin, the party’s international secretary, will run second. The third position is reserved for long time diplomat Evgeni Kirilov.
The party’s municipal conferences where MPs summarize tasks and activities completed during this parliament’s mandate in the form of public reports before citizens will most likely arrange the bottom section of the MEPs election tickets.
Yet the nominations for the national parliament held at these conferences are far hotter.
After information leaked from ethnically Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) that its leader Ahmed Dogan would eventually top the election ticket for the town of Varna where his party was once established and would not hold the helm in Kardzhali, this grants the Socialists a real chance for a remake of the two mandates BSP took when now President Georgi Parvanov, started his starry career, then in the capacity of deputy chair of BSP. At the previous general election now Minister of Culture Stefan Danailov was almost on the edge of winning a seat from Kardzhali and even provoked incredible joy in the town on the election night, when church bells rang in triumph but later on the Socialists’ votes in the region turned out not enough. Now it’s heard at BSP’s headquarters that if its leader Sergey Stanishev tops the election ticket in Kardzhali followed by ethnic Turk Mrs. Semra Izetova, the party might gain a real chance to finally repeat its success from some 20 years ago in this enigmatic city.
Meanwhile young socialists announced they would also join actively their party’s election campaign with a massive tour in 4 cities across the country to present 40 representatives of theirs planned to enter BSP’s election tickets for the national parliament. Yet they did not advise if the new socialists’ generation will be given electable positions on the tickets or is only summoned to demonstrate that the party is modernized now and attracts the young across the country.
A total of 2290 members of registered supporters of DSB set up the opposition party’s ticket for the forthcoming MEP elections.
Delegates from Bulgaria’s 31 multimandate regions voted during special regional meetings of the party held in the towns of Pleven, Rousse, Varna, Bourgas, Plovdiv, and Sofia. After counting and summing the votes from all the meetings MP Svetoslav Marinov topped the ranking with 1508 votes, followed by Konstantin Dimitrov (1425 votes), and Boris Stanimirov (1109 votes).
Later on Konstantin Dimitrov declared he gives up on the EP race in order of placing all his efforts in the campaign for the national parliament to which he also applies. Dimitrov was once deputy minister of foreign affairs under Prime Minister Ivan Kostov, with foreign minister Nadezhda Mihailova. He was also European observer of DSB in Brussels, and MEP candidate at the first vote after Bulgaria joined the EU, though then none right party managed sending representatives to the European Parliament.
DImitrov’s chances now are not much larger too, as he would most likely receive the fourth position on the joint election tickets of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and DSB, for the two parties have agreed in advance that
Nadezhda Mihailova is to top the list of the united rightists’ contenders for Brussels.
Given the tickets shall be arranged in chess-board order, the second place will be for Svetoslav Malinov of DSB who has won more regional votes than Konstantin Dimitrov, and the third position will fall to UDF again, so the former MEP can count on merely forth place. So far it is not clear yet what position is planned for him on the national parliament election tickets of the two united rightist parties. Owing to unabating scandals within the UDF on namely this theme, the tickets are not arranged as of yet.
Yet DSB is firmly decided to act as the Socialists and make use of the election to present brand new and unknown so far faces from their parties. Next on DSB’s list for Brussels are unfamiliar to public Plamen Tzvetkov, Yussef Dakak, Rositza Racheva, Vanya Tancheva-Mancheva, Anton Andreev, and Dragomir Boyadzhiev.
BSP’s MEP ticket is obviously already composed, although municipal conferences are currently being held on nominating candidates. Yet the ticket is to be officially presented on April 10. Probably until then the party will discuss the positions after the fifth, which are practically unelectable. Yet the list of the Socialists’ top candidates for the European Parliament can be considered fixed.
Two of BSP’s current MEPs – Atanas Paparizov and Marusia Lyubcheva – drop off the MEP candidate lists,
yet it’s not clear so far will the two be at all included in the EP election ticket or they will be compensated with electable positions on the national parliament tickets. So their fourth and fifth positions for Brussels fall to, accordingly, Tatyana Doncheva and Georgi Pirinski. All know about lawyer Bliznashki’s close relations with Parliament Speaker Georgi Pirinski as of the times of United Social Democracy fraction in the party.
Shuffled are also the two top positions. Iliana Yotova will most likely top the MEPs ticket, and up to now leader Christian Vigenin, the party’s international secretary, will run second. The third position is reserved for long time diplomat Evgeni Kirilov.
The party’s municipal conferences where MPs summarize tasks and activities completed during this parliament’s mandate in the form of public reports before citizens will most likely arrange the bottom section of the MEPs election tickets.
Yet the nominations for the national parliament held at these conferences are far hotter.
After information leaked from ethnically Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) that its leader Ahmed Dogan would eventually top the election ticket for the town of Varna where his party was once established and would not hold the helm in Kardzhali, this grants the Socialists a real chance for a remake of the two mandates BSP took when now President Georgi Parvanov, started his starry career, then in the capacity of deputy chair of BSP. At the previous general election now Minister of Culture Stefan Danailov was almost on the edge of winning a seat from Kardzhali and even provoked incredible joy in the town on the election night, when church bells rang in triumph but later on the Socialists’ votes in the region turned out not enough. Now it’s heard at BSP’s headquarters that if its leader Sergey Stanishev tops the election ticket in Kardzhali followed by ethnic Turk Mrs. Semra Izetova, the party might gain a real chance to finally repeat its success from some 20 years ago in this enigmatic city.
Meanwhile young socialists announced they would also join actively their party’s election campaign with a massive tour in 4 cities across the country to present 40 representatives of theirs planned to enter BSP’s election tickets for the national parliament. Yet they did not advise if the new socialists’ generation will be given electable positions on the tickets or is only summoned to demonstrate that the party is modernized now and attracts the young across the country.
A total of 2290 members of registered supporters of DSB set up the opposition party’s ticket for the forthcoming MEP elections.
Delegates from Bulgaria’s 31 multimandate regions voted during special regional meetings of the party held in the towns of Pleven, Rousse, Varna, Bourgas, Plovdiv, and Sofia. After counting and summing the votes from all the meetings MP Svetoslav Marinov topped the ranking with 1508 votes, followed by Konstantin Dimitrov (1425 votes), and Boris Stanimirov (1109 votes).
Later on Konstantin Dimitrov declared he gives up on the EP race in order of placing all his efforts in the campaign for the national parliament to which he also applies. Dimitrov was once deputy minister of foreign affairs under Prime Minister Ivan Kostov, with foreign minister Nadezhda Mihailova. He was also European observer of DSB in Brussels, and MEP candidate at the first vote after Bulgaria joined the EU, though then none right party managed sending representatives to the European Parliament.
DImitrov’s chances now are not much larger too, as he would most likely receive the fourth position on the joint election tickets of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and DSB, for the two parties have agreed in advance that
Nadezhda Mihailova is to top the list of the united rightists’ contenders for Brussels.
Given the tickets shall be arranged in chess-board order, the second place will be for Svetoslav Malinov of DSB who has won more regional votes than Konstantin Dimitrov, and the third position will fall to UDF again, so the former MEP can count on merely forth place. So far it is not clear yet what position is planned for him on the national parliament election tickets of the two united rightist parties. Owing to unabating scandals within the UDF on namely this theme, the tickets are not arranged as of yet.
Yet DSB is firmly decided to act as the Socialists and make use of the election to present brand new and unknown so far faces from their parties. Next on DSB’s list for Brussels are unfamiliar to public Plamen Tzvetkov, Yussef Dakak, Rositza Racheva, Vanya Tancheva-Mancheva, Anton Andreev, and Dragomir Boyadzhiev.
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