Atanas Zafirov is the new chairman of the BSP National Council, NOVA learned from its sources. He appeared in the runoff with Borislav Gutsanov. Zafirov temporarily acting as chairman of the party. Zafirov's lead is 40 votes over Gutsanov.
The party is meeting on the second day of its 51st Congress. After it became clear on Saturday evening that the direct election of the party chairman would be dropped, the meeting began at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday.
We recall that the former chairman of the BSP Sergey Stanishev, the chairman of the Youth Union in the BSP Gabriel Valkov, the mayor of Dryanovo Trifon Panchev, Genadi Sabkov and Anton Kutev have so far withdrawn from the race for the leadership post. Earlier, the chairman of BSP-Sofia Ivan Takov, the deputy chairman of the National Assembly and chairman of the parliamentary group of “BSP-United Left“ Dragomir Stoynev and the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Ivan Ivanov also withdrew their candidacies.