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GERB Leader Borissov Rules Out Voting for Iotova at Presidential Election

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GERB leader Boyko Borissov said on Sunday he would not vote for President Iliana Iotova, describing her as his ideological opponent. Borissov was addressing young GERB members at a New Minds national academy event in Pazardzhik. He said he would not vote for many other candidates either and had founded GERB to defeat the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). No one had yet approached GERB for support in the presidential race, he added. "History is a good thing, and we should remember it. Five years ago, GERB nominated a presidential candidate. Back then, our friends from Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) supported Iotova. We already have a precedent in Bulgaria: then president Rumen Radev decided to do something else and the vice president took over his role," Borissov said. "We must be very careful about presidential tickets. I was taught that if I cannot help someone, I should not stand in their way. You should not offer unsolicited help, because it always backfires on you,"

First report: GERB Will Not Offer Unsolicited Support to Presidential Candidates, Party Leader Borissov Says — bta.bg, 4d