The GERB leadership said it has asked its parliamentary group to move for opening a procedure to impeach President Georgi Purvanov.

The decision was prompted by the publication on the presidential website of the verbatim record and an audio file from a meeting between the President and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov which was expected to iron out frictions between the two.

The two met at Djankov's request to discuss his participation in a TV show and controversial remarks that were exchanged there about the President.

GERB argue that Djankov was not aware the meeting was taped and was not asked for permission to make the recording public.

The GERB leadership believe that with his actions the President violated Article 32 (2) of the Constitution which says that "no one shall be followed, photographed, filmed, recorded or subjected to any other similar activity without his knowledge or despite his express disapproval, except when such actions are permitted by law".

"I have no intention of wasting my energy on conflicts between the institutions," said Wednesday Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in Bourgas, taking a question on how he would gather the necessary votes for an impeachment procedure against President Purvanov. Borissov was visiting Bourgas to cut the ribbon of a new water treatment facility.

The Blue Coalition will back GERB if an impeachment procedure against the President opens, Blue Coalition co-floor leader Ivan Kostov told reporters in Parliament. He said that the key thing is to save Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov's dignity, which could be achieved through debates in Parliament.

Second, according to Kostov, is to state clearly that the head of state has breached the Constitution.

Martin Dimitrov, co-floor leader of the Blue Coalition, said that his "legal experts have their doubts." In Dimitrov's words, it is not clear from a legal point of view how wrongful Purvanov's actions were.

Dimitrov voiced his opinion that the country needs a new president. He noted that Purvanov concealed his past of a collaborator of the special services and did not take responsibility for the formation of the three-party coalition, which he qualified as purely ethical issues.

There are no legal grounds for impeachment of President Purvanov, said Bulgarian Socialist Part leader Sergei Stanishev, speaking to reporters in Parliament on Wednesday.

The campaign is pointless, a set-up, it creates tension in the country and there are no legal grounds for it, he said. According to Stanishev, the campaign is a smoke screen to distract from the real issues such as the worsening economic situation, the social collapse and problems of municipalities and health care.