site.btaYes, Bulgaria Co-Chair Mirchev Says His Party Will Not Side with Borissov, Peevski in Presidential Elections

Yes, Bulgaria Co-Chair Ivaylo Mirchev said Friday that the party will not side with GERB-UDF Floor Leader Boyko Borissov and Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning Floor Leader Delyan Peevski during the 2026 presidential elections after earlier in the day Borissov said that the the centre-right parties should unite behind a single candidate. The Yes, Bulgaria party is part of the Democratic Bulgaria coalition and the Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria parliamentary group.

Regarding the attack on Senior Commissioner Nikolay Kozhuharov in Ruse, Mirchev pointed out that absolutely any attack on law enforcement officials and on any Bulgarian citizen is unacceptable.

The other Yes, Bulgaria Co-Chair, Bozhidar Bozhanov, stressed that the party had filed an alert with the prosecution service and the Anti-Corruption Commission "on how Delyan Peevski actually runs the country, namely through compromising information and files he holds on various politicians, threatening to bring charges against them through his prosecution service."

Bozhanov added that they are preparing amendments for a major reform of the special intelligence services - how wiretapping is carried out, how it is justified and how the collected data is destroyed, because, according to him, it is currently piling up in the institutions.

"We are also introducing amendments to the Electronic Identification Act so that citizens can use electronic services from their phones at any time and in the most convenient way possible," said Bozhanov, noting that citizens should be given as much relief as possible in order to develop the country's economy.

Regarding the case of detained Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsov, Bozhanov underlined that the Anti-Corruption Commission is "brutally violating the law by not giving the cases to the prosecution service to bring them to court and consider Kotsov's pre-trial detention."