Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Bulgaria's 3rd-largest party Vazrazhdane party has stated North Macedonia and the Ukrainian part of Southern Bessarabia should be added to Bulgaria.

Kostadinov compared his aims to the statement by US president-elect Donald Trump that he wants to annex the Panama Canal and Canada.

Kostadinov said Trump’s claims to Canada and the Panama Canal were justified.

“The situation is the same with [North] Macedonia. There is nothing more logical than for two countries with a common history, common origin, common language and common people to become one state. 

The case is similar with Southern Bessarabia. It was part of the Bulgarian state for more than 450 years, the Bulgarians have been the indigenous population of this area (since the 6th century) and to this day they are the majority of the population. For comparison, Ukraine has owned Southern Bessarabia for only 34 years,” Kostadinov wrote in a Facebook post.

“That is why there is nothing more logical than the unification of Bulgaria and Macedonia into one common state, as well as the return of Southern Bessarabia back to Bulgaria"