July 15 (BTA) - Slavi Trifonov, the leader of the There
is Such A People (TISP) party which won 65 seats in the 240-seat
 National Assembly at the July 11 early parliamentary elections,
 thus emerging as the formation with the most MPs, has retracted
 the nomination made on Monday of Nikolai Vasilev as prime
minister in a possible TISP government. The withdrawal of
Vasilev's name was made in a Facebook post on Thursday.

In the Facebook post Trifonov wrote: "On Monday I proposed a
government made up of nothing but highly educated professionals
with clear priorities. I suggested economist Nikolai Vasilev for
 the prime minister's post. He is a person with experience in
politics, in the state administration and in real business. In
the three days since Monday he has been the target of a furious
smear campaign. It so turns out that it does not matter how
highly educated the proposed ministers are, what good experts
they are, how clear their priorities are. It so turns out that
this is of no importance to those media outlets and politicians
who alleged that Vasilev is a person of the Movement for Rights
and Freedoms - an allegation that is not true".

The TISP leader also said that he understood that this country
does not need instability and new elections. "To me it is of no
big importance what lies were told by some of the
anti-establishment parties. What is important to me is to erase
[so far ruling party] GERB's model from Bulgaria's public and
political life, because this is the main enemy of statehood and
democracy. I understand this, unlike others. This is why I
decided to withdraw the nomination of the  worthy person
Vasilev. We, as a party that won the latest elections, will
propose a new prime minister and a revised line-up of the
government," Trifonov wrote, adding that since he believes that
all this needs to happen openly, in front of people's eyes, he
is calling a news conference on Friday, at the Bulgarian News
Agency, where TISP political leaders and Vasilev will answer
"all questions of all reporters". The news conference is
scheduled to start at 1 pm local time. RY/ZH
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