"It is clear to everyone that there will be new elections," said GERB leader Boyko Borisov. After Vice President Iliyana Yotova said yesterday that the parliament is illegitimate, today Borisov harshly criticized the presidential institution. He expects Yotova to either apologize or the president to withdraw the decree to convene the 51st National Assembly on Monday. GERB will not back down from the fact that the speaker of the parliament is from the winning party, BNT reported.
Criticism of the presidency with the expectation of an apology - Boyko Borisov addressed the head of state in absentia.
"I don't even know after the presidential institution said that the elections are illegitimate, will they come on Monday in the hall to legitimize the illegal or the illegitimate? It only appears that the presidential elections are fair and transparent. Why, since they are illegitimate, it is within his powers to refer the SC to cash the elections. What are these games with partial section cashouts etc.? And I expect Vice President Yotova to either apologize or the President to withdraw the decree for Monday. There is nothing to bring us together", commented the chairman of GERB Boyko Borisov.
"The legality of the election, that is, its legality, is contested before the SC. And legitimacy is a matter of trust in the institutions. When this dispute comes between the institutions, then the smell of a slight revolutionaryness begins to be felt in the atmosphere" , said GERB MP Rosen Zhelyazkov.
According to Borisov, Yotova's statement would call into question a possible cabinet.
"Even if we create such a government when it has already been announced by one institution that the most important institution in the country - the Parliament - is illegitimate - this automatically means a fight between the authorities,' said Boyko Borisov.
Borisov has other expectations.
"And I am really waiting for the presidential party. 4 years of caretaker governments dominated by Radev. When did we dare speak against him? Never", said the GERB leader.
The leader of GERB made a forecast for elections after the elections.
"It is clear to everyone that there will be new elections. 15 days after the elections, there is no question of a government at all", comments Borisov.
The leader of GERB identified as his biggest opponents in the elections "DPS-New Beginning", ASP and "Vazrazhdane", not PP-DB.
"Here is the mistake of the PP-DB, that they think that if we push off the bottom, they will disappear. Not only will they not disappear, then this assembly with this strength and this political responsibility of the parties will bring Bulgaria forward so quickly that everyone will say evala for this assembly. They have time to think about one, the other, and the third", Boyko Borisov also said.
And again rejected the thesis that GERB is dependent on Peevski.
"Barekov only wrote to me: Shishi will take your votes. But GERB is a strong structure, hey," the leader of GERB also said.
There will be no compromise.
"We are not backing down from the chairman of the National Assembly in any way, because it is not fair," Boyko Borisov also said.
Rosen Zhelyazkov and Raya Nazaryan are the names put forward by GERB for Speaker of the Parliament.