"Our position is clear - we have always been against collaboration with GERB and DPS", said the leader of "Stand Up, Bulgaria" Maya Manolova, part of the "BSP - United Left" coalition. "I have stated it publicly, I have also stated it with a vote of the coalition councils", she told journalists before the start of the National Council meeting. "However, I hope that there are reasonable people in the BSP who realize that a coalition with GERB could be the "kiss of death" for the left unity and for the left in Bulgaria", emphasized Manolova.
"Let's see the actions and decisions of the collective bodies of the BSP, then there will be a coalition council, after which "Stand Up, Bulgaria" will make its decision," Manolova pointed out. "Yes, Bulgaria needs a government, that's undeniable, but I think that a large part of the left-wing people are disappointed by such a gathering," she commented.
Asked whether the BSP should support a GERB government, Velizar Enchev from the "Bulgarian Spring" Movement, also a coalition partner in the left unity, commented that no matter how naive it may seem, he still believes that the BSP National Council will show common sense and reject this vicious coalition, or rather, will reject this "deal with the devil". "Because when you give up your "red lines", you deny your ideas, and a party that denies its ideas is politically deceased", he pointed out.
When asked how the BSP partners would act if the National Council reached a decision to support a GERB government, Enchev replied that "Bulgarian Spring" would leave in that case, and he stated this at the last meetings of the coalition council.