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This shot of Kiril Petkov, Lena Borislavova and Valentin Poryazov, leaked on the Internet, aroused different curiosity and interpretation of what exactly the Prime Minister did in Thessaloniki.
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Unannounced trip the day before the visit of Olaf Scholz provoke new intrigues
Prime Minister Kiril Petkov attended a dinner with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Northern Macedonian Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski in Thessaloniki on Friday.
However, the visit, which was attended by the head of the Prime Minister’s Office Lena Borislavova and our Ambassador to Greece Valentin Poryazov, was not announced in advance.
She found out about it from photos leaked on the Internet, which show Petkov, Borislavova and Poryazov on a table in a hotel in Thessaloniki. And the trip sparked a different curiosity and interpretation, which would probably have been different if the government press center had just announced the dinner in advance. On Saturday and Sunday, the websites PIK, Blitz, Trud, and Epicenter tried to interpret first who was the third at the table at the Hyatt Hotel near Thessaloniki, and then to ask if the Prime Minister and his chief of staff had spent the night in a shared bed. . Before the photo from Greece, another photo of Petkov and Borislavova appeared, but from 2021. As no official comment appeared this time either, the interpretations ranged from a meeting in a secret apartment to a connection to the contract that the lawyer received for 70,000 at the time. BGN in the Bulgarian Development Bank. Both speculations late last night were described by Lena Borislavova as classic compromising material.
But what exactly did the government Airbus plane really fly to Thessaloniki on Friday night and return on Saturday afternoon – shortly before German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Sofia.
The Prime Minister was on board the plane and was traveling for a meeting of the Southeast European Cooperation Process, initiated by Bulgaria since 1996, the government’s press service told a question from 24 Chasa.
Due to commitments in Sofia, however, the prime minister was unable to travel for the meeting itself, but joined the dinner of prime ministers and presidents from the Balkans.
Edi Rama and Dimitar Kovachevski, as well as, for example, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, Serbian President Alexander Vucic and representatives from all other countries in the initiative were there, the Council of Ministers stressed.
The talks in Thessaloniki were also attended by European Council President Charles Michel and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The topic of the meeting was the enlargement of the European Union with the countries of the Western Balkans, which Bulgaria is currently suspending in relation to Northern Macedonia and Albania. The German also mentioned the meeting during his visit to Sofia the next day, stressing that 20 years have passed since the EU promised to accept the countries of the Western Balkans. At the time, we thought that this accession would take place within 10 years, Scholz said after talks with Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.
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