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Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva will be the main ruling party's candidate in the presidential elections, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said.

Vice Admiral Plamen Manushev will be the GERB's candidate for Vice President.

Tsacheva, the first female Parliament Speaker of Bulgaria, will also become the first female President if elected.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is expected to announce his party's candidates for president and vice president on Sunday.

The event will follow months of silence on behalf of his party, conservative GERB, which has repeatedly declined to reveal the names.

The probability of GERB nominating for president the chairman of Parliament Tsetska Tsacheva, the mayors of Sofia and Burgas - Yordanka Fandakova and Dimitar Nikolov, and Vice Premier Tomislav Donchev is 99%, said on bTV the chairman of the pre-election headquarters of GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said he is "not commenting" on information that Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva is the nomination of his GERB party for the presidential elections.

Earlier, the names of Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Deputy PM Tomislav Donchev, Burgas Mayor Dimitar Nikolov, and Tsacheva herself have been repeatedly mentioned as possible nominees.

GERB and the Reformist Bloc approve of the decision of the government to nominate European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva as Bulgarian Candidate for UN Secretary General, stated PM Borisov on Wednesday.

Former PM and current candidate for president Plamen Oresharski sees GERB and DPS as "possible partners" in his pre-election campaign.

A month before the presidential elections, GERB continues to be the leading political force, showed data from a nationally representative survey of Exacta Research Group among 1,000 Bulgarians in 89 locations in the country in the period September 5-12.

The deputy chairwoman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament Mariya Gabriel has been recognised as one of the 25 most influential European deputies.

She ranked 15th in the prestigious vote, prepared by VoteWatch, an organisation which follows closely the work of all 751 European deputies.

The presidential candidate of the coalition Movement 21-NDSV Tatyana Doncheva reckons that GERB will not reach a ballotage in the upcoming presidential elections.

Doncheva and vice president nominee Mincho Spasov filed their documents with the Central Election Commission on Monday.

The decision of Bulgaria's main ruling party GERB to keep silent on the names of its presidential pair does not bring it any benefits as of the past few weeks, a representative of Alpha Research polling agency has said.