SDS would support Atanas Atanasov for Speaker of the Parliament. Rumen Hristov - leader of the SDS, coalition partner of the GERB, said this to BNT.
"As a representative of the SDS, it is much easier to vote for Mr. Atanasov, and I did not vote for Mrs. Kiselova, I voted against. Basically, we are the antithesis of the BSP and we have ideological differences", Rumen Hristov explained.
"Atanas Atanasov was proposed as a candidate by Mr. Borisov, and the idea was: Speaker of the Parliament from PP-DB, Prime Minister - in the person of Mr. Borisov. And I'll tell you why. In this difficult situation, it is best to appoint a person who has knowledge, experience, who has connections abroad, to reach the country for a period of time, if things go well - maybe even a longer period of time, and then think about whether we continue in this format or not. But that didn't happen. I understand that the DSB nominated Mr. Atanasov, of course, this will go through the discussion of the executive committee of colleagues from GERB, they are the big formation, the many voices, I speak for myself and for the SDS."
Rumen Hristov emphasized that Borisov is inclined to make compromises for the sake of the state moving forward.
"I don't know how the talks will go. This is a decision of the executive committee, but Borisov has shown in all these years that he can make compromises. And not to sound so arrogant, but he really does them in the name of the state. Now it is necessary to make the parliament work, to do several important things. And that's why he said - regardless of the fact that it is important for the first political force to stand up for its own candidate in the person of Mrs. Raya Nazaryan, we withdraw it only to untie the knot."
The leader of the UDF emphasized that this parliament should start, at the very least, to be able to dissolve itself.
"But look at what Borisov says - we are ready to make the people's representatives who are not in the parliamentary group of "Vazrazhdane" a majority. and "DPS - New Beginning", are enough to elect a chairman. Let us make a choice for the chairman without including these two formations. PP-DB - no. We will vote for the oldest Mr. Silvi Kirilov. Only that "Revival" appears there. First, we don't want to line up with "Revival". And secondly, it is obvious that each election, each proposed speaker of the parliament is rather considered as a future prime minister", commented Hristov.