Brussels, 01/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - Bulgarian Sergei Stanishev and Spaniard Enrique Baron have been announced as the two candidates for the position of President of the Party of European Socialists (PES), due to be held at the PES Congress in Budapest on Friday 12 June 2015.
Stanishev, who was nominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the BSP, is the outgoing PES president, a position he has held since 2012. He was previously the prime minister of Bulgaria and is currently an MEP. Baron was nominated by the Spanish Socialist Party, PSOE. He was European Parliament President from 1989 to 1992. (Mathieu Bion)