Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski waves as he arrives in the parliament in Sofia July 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's scandal-tainted Socialist Party (BSP) picked a new leader on Sunday with the task of winning back disaffected voters before an early parliamentary election set for October 5 in the European Union's poorest member state.
The new chairman, Mihail Mikov, was the speaker of Bulgaria's parliament during the outgoing Socialist-led coalition, which lasted barely a year before resigning after the BSP's poor performance in European Parliament elections in May.
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