Авторитетното американско бизнес списание "Forbes" нарече българският министър-председател "дълбоко посредствен тъпоумен интригант-сървайвър" в коментар, озаглавен "ООН има нов лидер: задкулисните игри зад избора". Негов автор е Мелик Кайлън, сътрудник на Forbes, който пише и за Wall Street Journal.

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Melik Kaylan

If Bulgaria were a normal healthy country, the Prime Minister would now resign and the government would fall. Because, it was the Prime Minister’s decision to switch candidates. He did so despite knowing that two-thirds of Bulgarian citizens preferred his first candidate. Boyko Borissov is his name, a deeply underachieving dull-witted schemer-survivor in the wooden tradition of the region. A short-fingered Bulgarian if ever there was one. He first came to the fore as the bodyguard of the last Bulgarian Communist leader. That should give you a clue to the man’s qualities. So why did Boyko ‘switch horses’? Why did he do it? He had to know that Georgieva would never win, that she’d never get past the Russian veto. Everybody else knew it. Even I knew it. Here’s what I wrote:

she faces an insuperable problem. The Russians will automatically reject her. They have said so explicitly in the official state gazette. She was and is still a candidate without hope, and must simply let it go for everyone’s sake: her country’s, the UN’s, the world’s. Alas she hasn’t let go and indeed has redoubled her backstairs string-pulling. It won’t alter the outcome – her candidacy to nowhere cannot override Moscow’s certain veto. Why are the Russians set against her? Georgieva, a Vice President of the European Commission, has run the EU’s budget during the time of (much deserved) sanctions against Russia. Said sanctions will certainly be renewed imminently.