MP from „There Is Such A People“ /TISP/ Lubomir Karimanski announced that he had received a threatening SMS. He announced it during a briefing of the parliamentary group in the National Assembly. According to him, the text message arrived at 5:30 pm after the meeting of the Committee on Budget and Finance failed. It reads literally:
„Give up or the problems will start immediately and you have no idea how serious they will be.„
Karimanski is a candidate for the new governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, together with Andrey Gyurov from „We continue the change. According to him, such threats are unacceptable, he intends to continue to uphold his principles and apply a single standard, not a double standard.
The MP referred the matter to the law enforcement officers and shared his hopes that the Ministry of Interior will do its job and reveal the sender of the threat. His colleague Toshko Yordanov described what was happening as a „thuggish“ technique and trick.
