The leader of GERB Boyko Borisov accused on the sidelines of the parliament - the small parties in non-constructive behavior and again tied the majority for the election of the Speaker of the National Assembly to the possibility of forming a government. He declared that his party will not back down from Raya Nazaryan's candidacy, even though in the two votes so far she failed to gather the necessary majority, because the principle of the largest group having the chairman must be respected.
Let's sit down and make a stable government as the people gave us - the first, the second and the third.
This is the way out of the crisis, said Borisov.
The GERB leader insisted that his former partners in government negotiate for a cabinet and reiterated that they must take responsibility for power. "Alexei, God forgive him, he is gone, otherwise we would go to the monastery and deal with him," he said, referring to the unofficial information that the interaction between his party and the coalition in the last term was arranged with the mediation of the businessman who was shot last August near Sofia.
Borisov responded to Denkov's remark from the parliamentary rostrum that his government was overthrown under the pressure of GERB and DPS because of their reluctance to reform. "Denkov told a lie - no Peevski and no DPS participated in the negotiations. The reason the government fell was only one foreign minister", he said and added: "Kiril Petkov was negotiating with the DPS [...] Stop distorting the truth".
"I listened very carefully to the speeches of the parties and I see a lot of contradictions. Some like Nikolay Denkov say that the first political force should bear all the responsibility. The smaller parties say we are all equal. We are equal, yes, but let's also see the number of deputies.
From what I've heard, no one has learned their lesson. And if Denkov had a little more self-criticism, he would admit that the successes he wants to attribute to himself were made more than us. He became prime minister because he had the GERB in charge. Now there is an irresponsible "We continue the change" that wants to throw the country into chaos."
This comment was made by GERB leader Boyko Borisov immediately after the failed election for Speaker of the 50th Parliament.
GERB has 68 deputies - 3 times more than PP-DB's 22, Borissov stressed. With all the corruption of the last months, they want to experience themselves as the mentor of the society, added the GERB leader. "They do not feel that they have done wrong, they consider themselves victims. Return to GERB with responsibility to the state.
I am not optimistic from what I see. We will not take a step back for Raya Nazaryan, Boyko Borisov was categorical.
Only with DPS and without a broad format we cannot form a coalition, the leader of GERB also said. Kiril Petkov was negotiating with DPS during the rotation, he called us that Peevski agrees, Borisov also said to his former partners in the assembly.