UDF and CDF sign pre-election agreement without DSB

The Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and the Community of Democratic Forces (CDF) established a pre-election coalition today in support of the presidential candidate Rumen Hristov. Although the news was announced as an agreement between the Blue Coalition and CDF, the document was signed only by the Chairman of UDF’s campaign headquarters Boris Markov and the Chairman of CDF’s Coordination Council Ivo Tsanev. This fact provoked various interpretations, including comments that this was another step towards the breakdown of the Blue Coalition, already predicted by some analysts.

The recently established CDF is a union of parties, whose leaders - Stefan Sofiyanski, Evgeni Bakardzhiev, Lyuben Dilov Jr – wanted more independence because of disagreements with Ivan Kostov, incumbent leader of Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB). There are no reasons for discussing a disintegration of the Blue Coalition, Boris Markov and Veselin Metodiev, chairs of UDF’s and DSB’s campaign headquarters, assured unanimously today.

“I do not think that any party functionary would call into question the existence of the Blue Coalition because of bickering over at a local level,” stated Markov, referring to the continuing disagreements between the UDF and DSB about the distribution of positions in the election list for municipal councillors in Sofia.

DSB leader Ivan Kostov was not reached for comment. In right-wing circles, it is claimed that he will not give up his demand that the ticket for municipal councillors in the capital city should be compiled observing the 3:2 ratio, while UDF agrees to cede the first two positions to DSB representatives and then the distribution to be in a 1:1 ratio.

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