Word: kostov
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...Socialists had agreed to step down and allow new elections in April, he was hoisted on the shoulders of supporters, and Bulgarians ended 30 days of protests to erupt in celebration. Bulgaria's next Prime Minister, says TIME's Massimo Calabresi, will almost certainly be opposition leader Ivan Kostov of the United Democratic Forces. But what relief his term will bring is uncertain. "Kostov is a former finance minister with the UDF," Calabresi noted, "and at the time, he fared little better with Bulgaria's economic problems than the Socialists have since." More encouraging, says Calabresi, is the "actively...
...conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered continued negotiations with the opposition on replacing the country's current interior minister, and TIME's Theodor Troev reports from Sofia that several Socialist leaders have already proposed passing their governing mandate to the opposition party, possibly to form a coalition government. Ivan Kostov, head of the main opposition, said his party would end its 21/2-week boycott of parliament in hope of a compromise. "If there is the will and consensus, Parliament can endorse in a short term the necessary laws, and early elections can be called." Kostov said. But impatient leaders of Bulgaria...
Even if opposition forces get their wish and win the next election, there is no guarantee that they can fix things. When the UDF took over in 1991, it lasted only a year before being tossed out. Its current leader and potential Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, is an unflashy, bureaucratic type who was Finance Minister in the failed UDF government five years ago. He was not, however, a Communist Party member, and he has signed on for market-friendly policies in the past. If the Socialists don't go along, he says, it can only mean that "they want...