BSP followed several basic principles throughout the process of choosing chairman - ethics, consistency and statesmanship. We continue to believe that Assoc. Natalia Kiselova is the most suitable candidate for the Speaker of the Parliament. Guided by this understanding and concerned about the future of the state, we have held all the necessary conversations to find support. Meetings with traffic police – We didn't have a new beginning and we didn't ask for support in any way. This is what the chairman of the BSP said to the media in the National Assembly – UNITED LEFT Atanas Zafirov.
He emphasized that this is a categorical and consistent position of the left, expressed in the letter that was sent to all other groups, except Peevski's, with a request for a round table. “In it, we have clearly stated our intentions regarding called “sanitary cordon”, added the socialist.
Atanas Zafirov explained that today the left unity had a meeting with PP – DB, on which a condition has been set for support for a candidate of the left, with the signing of the cordon. “During these meetings – first in our group, then in theirs, we declared our clear intention to support their declaration, despite the reasonable reservations we have regarding the constitutionality of some of the texts. We told them that in the spirit of propriety, we will hold talks with GERB, as a force that supports our candidate twice, and let them know the condition we have been given.
At the meeting with GERB, they stated that they needed time to think through this conversation and set their conditions, because until now their opinion was that their support was unconditional. We asked for such time and apparently it was not given to us", the chairman of the left association explained the events. He was adamant that additional support beyond this was not sought. According to him, the left did not set conditions and did not want them to set them. The socialist emphasized that what was requested is a fact – PG of BSP – UNITED LEFT has signed the PP-DB declaration.
„Everything else is speculation. We have witnessed fear that the President of the National Assembly may be elected today and a visible explosion of the negotiations, he said categorically. Zafirov emphasized that there is no way to ask the fifth force, with 20 deputies, to solve the problems between the first and the second and to meet all the conditions.