After 10 years in power, Bulgarian prime minister withdraws

“I will not run for prime minister”, he said in a video posted on his Facebook account.

He explained his decision with the will “not to divide the nation”, while considering that “there was no one more competent” than he for the post, the ATS reported.

I will present the name of another prime minister, with a clear pro-European orientation and pro - NATO”, Borisov said, without providing further details.

In power since 2009 almost unabated, 61-year-old leaders had to face a huge wave of protests last summer against corruption that plagued the country and its alleged links to oligarchy.