Prime minister's hug a coup for photographers

The daily newspaper Trud has published a photo of Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev hugging a pensioner. On his blog Ivo Indyev comments ironically on the picture: "One is tempted to believe that this time it's not just a pose. What looks like free-style wrestling or a hot tango between Stanishev and the older, apparently male subject is probably a spontaneous expression of compassion on the part of the prime minister, in helping to his feet a pensioner who has stumbled. For the … ever-waiting photographers this is a coup. That's how it is, and when it sees its role model the electorate swoons - with Lukanov and Widenov [former prime ministers] with hunger and now with emotion. It's a good thing that the battles with [Sofia's] mayor Borisov [leader of the GERB party and a major rival for Stanishev's party] have kept the idol in good form so he has the strength, the speed and the deftness to save at least one pensioner."

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