Shake-up in leadership echelon of Borissov's GERB party
A May 11 national conference of outgoing Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party saw changes in the leadership echelon, with Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova and Bourgas mayor Dimitar Nikolov voted out as deputy leaders. Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev and Daniel Mitov – the former foreign minister who was Borissov’s prime minister-designate before GERB gave up trying to form a government – were voted in as deputy leaders. The May 11 date for the conference, GERB’s first since August 2020, was chosen some weeks ago, before it was known that this would be the date on...