Balgarianovinite.com Continue the Change (CC) leader Assen Vassilev said on Saturday that he expects the democratic Right-wing to nominate a joint candidate for Bulgaria’s presidential election by the end of the summer.
Speaking to reporters before his party’s annual general assembly, Vassilev said the nominee should be “a figure who is ready to clearly point out the government’s mistakes when they occur” rather than “a rubber stamp for everything that happens in the country.”
He added that the candidate should be someone Bulgarian citizens can identify with as a president and said CC would not support the nominee of the GERB-UDF coalition.
Vassilev said the party’s annual meeting would review its work over the past year. He noted that since the parliamentary elections and CC’s separation from its former coalition partners in Democratic Bulgaria, more than 400 new members had joined the party.
Looking ahead to the local elections, Vassilev said CC aims to support candidates committed to the development of their municipalities who are not tied to business interests, have no vulnerabilities that could make them subject to political pressure, and would work in the public interest. He added that such candidates do not necessarily have to be members of Continue the Change to receive the party’s backing.
Commenting on the government’s performance, Vassilev described it as “a complete failure.” He argued that President Rumen Radev’s administration had abandoned the commitments on which he had been elected, particularly with regard to fiscal policy.
“He was elected promising to put the budget in order because it was the budget that brought down the previous government. Instead, we now see a budget with a larger deficit than that proposed by former finance minister Temenuzhka Petkova, more spending on public procurement and government maintenance, frozen maternity benefits, frozen social payments, and measures that hurt small businesses and the Church,” Vassilev said.
He also alleged that former communist-era State Security officers were being appointed to senior positions in the administration.
Asked whether Continue the Change would respond to the 2026 state budget, Vassilev said the party had already done so with strong criticism. He recalled that the first protest against the budget had taken place in December 2025 during the second reading of the budget bill in Parliament. Continue the Change Expects Joint Centre-Right Presidential Candidate by End of Summer 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-07-12 09:24:16 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law