Some BSP Leaders Call for a New Cabinet An open letter signed by some leaders of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party and published in the party daily Duma on November 5 urged a formation of a new government after the party defeat in the presidential elections two days earlier. Among the signatories were Alexander Lilov, a high-level communist era official and former BSP chairman who promoted the present BSP leader and prime minister Zhan Videnov within the party leadership; Yanaki Stoilov, deputy chairman of BSP and others (among them many from the reformist Union for Social Democracy faction within BSP). While noting the slump in the popularity of the government, the letter did not name Videnov in particular. It suggested that experts should get involved in the state government.