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Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who a few months ago was unhappy that the president had not scheduled elections for the earliest possible date, March 28, is now criticizing the president again, but on the contrary, for not scheduling them a week later.
On Friday, during one of his many Facebook appearances on the last day of the election campaign, Borissov tried to blame Rumen Radev:
“If we had a head of state, not a candidate for president or a candidate for leader of a party and the elections were only a week later, you can see that the peak of the wave has already come down, the vaccinated are becoming more than the infected (…) it would be much calmer and we would not have to prepare the automatic vote and all the measures in such an extreme situation. “
Probably due to his enormous workload during jeep tours, Borisov forgot that he had previously defended a completely different thesis.
In early December, the president announced that it would be March 28. However, before the final decision on the date, Radev held consultations with parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties, health authorities and the electoral administration. He then asked the health authorities for a forecast of the epidemic and a plan for the elections, and they in turn asked him to first set a date.
GERB began to criticize him for wanting to postpone the vote. At the time, Borisov also insisted on the earliest possible date, that is. 28th March
“The president now wonders how, on the basis of medical experts, to cancel the election, but relying on the fact that no one can give him a prognosis is ugly.“Borisov said on January 5, adding:
“We have an election date announced for March 28th. By this date we are preparing and preparing the medical protocol everywhere.. If anyone could predict what would happen on March 28, it would be the head of the WHO, although they do not know.. We see that our neighbors in Europe are completely blocked. “
“Health authorities prepare for parliamentary elections on March 28“said the Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov in the meeting with the head of state.
However, Radev called for the “political aspects” to be dropped and for quarantine and vaccination expectations to be discussed.
“And what are the protection measures you envisage and what freedom will the parties have in the campaign?” He asked. Radev.
“As soon as the president announces the date of the election, we will present it (the electoral plan), because otherwise it will resemble a bit, figuratively, a premature birth, there will be serious risks for AND thinking about the mobile sections, about the construction of sections for special voting of people in quarantine – yes, we think, Mr. President, how to guarantee the right of people who are in quarantine, because they are not legally allowed to leave their homes if “, replied the Minister of Health.
Then he also claimed that For two months, a medical protocol has been developed for conducting elections in pandemic conditions. – It adapts to international experience and will be clear as soon as the president schedules the elections.
The speaker of parliament, Tsveta Karayancheva, is also attacking the president for considering another date. “Let the president come out and say why he wants to change the election date. (…) For us at GERB, the date doesn’t matter. We are ready for the elections when the president says so. Let the president come out and say why he wants to change the date of the elections, after announcing this date in advance, and who does not get rid of this date? Let him say, I can’t say “Karayancheva said on January 6.
So she claimed that “ask President Radev how, on the basis of medical specialists, canceling the elections on another date is ugly“.
On January 14, the president scheduled elections for April 4. The GERB first defined the date as acceptable, and minutes later began to criticize it, because then it was the Catholic and Armenian Easter and this could create difficulties before Bulgarians vote abroad.
However, at no point did GERB or the Minister of Health insist on a later election date due to the projected increase in Covid infection.
Bulgaria is currently at the top of the third wave. Hospitals are crowded. Thousands of people in quarantine will be deprived of the right and obligation to vote.
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