"Ever since I am a human, they are asking me if I will become President."
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said, answering to a journalist who asked him whether he will run for President in 2016 - the next election Bulgaria is facing.
Borisov announced he had "forbidden" the issue of presidential elections until June.
The vote is due in the autumn. An open race for the office of the President, an office of predominantly ceremonial functions, is not expected to begin before the summer, but some parties are already putting forward candidates.
Borisov told public broadcaster BNT it was "not fair" to raise the issue given the performance of incumbent head of state, Rosen Plevneliev, who is doing a great job and has to have the confidence and authority to end his term.
In brief remarks to MPs on the presidential elections during his report-back on his annual month of political consultations with all parties represented in the National Assembly, Plevneliev said that he hoped these would be the only elections this year and that they would be held in a civilised manner, without populism, without unprincipled confrontation.
Plevneliev became President in January 2012 after winning a second-round victory in 2011 on the ticket of Boiko Borissovs centre-right GERB party, which then as now was in government.
In 2013 and 2014, amid political turbulence, Plevneliev twice had to appoint caretaker cabinets, first when Borissov resigned as head of government, and then when the highly unpopular 2013/14 government stepped down.
According to the most recent poll by polling agency Alpha Research, Plevneliev had a 25 per cent approval rating in early March, making approval of the Presidency the highest among state institutions.
There might be a political storm in the autumn if the ruling GERB party chooses as its presidential candidate Ivailo Kalfin - the runner-up of the Socialist party (the largest opposition in the current parliament) in the 2011 presidential elections.
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Political analysis by Plamen Asenov.
