The polling stations had been closed for two hours in Bulgaria. That was when Boyko Borisov claimed the right to govern from the headquarters of his right-wing party Gerb (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria): „I will govern with anyone who supports our program. All of them are potential partners tonight except my colleagues from ‘Rebirth’, whom I congratulate on the good result, but whom I cannot allow purely ideologically“, Borissov told journalists. Rebirth is an extremely right-wing, pro-Russian party in Bulgaria.