At a briefing, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Korneliya Ninova stated that the party had kept its result from the previous election, with almost 9% of the votes, in a situation in which “there was a manipulative campaign” against it.

“All the time there were insinuations that the BSP is done with as a party. Well, the plan for the assassination of the BSP failed this time. This is not the first time a doppelganger party of us has been created in the past two years. This time the poisonous twin was the Left, well-planned, organized, and underpinned with lots of money – hundreds of thousands of Leva, now officially published, for their campaign. With the support of the caretaker cabinet,” Korneliya Ninova said after a meeting of the BSP executive bureau. He urged all people who have left the party in recent years to return.