site.btaDOST Have Not Discussed Nominating Lyutvi Mestan for President
DOST Have Not Discussed Nominating Lyutvi Mestan for President
Sofia, May 4 (BTA) - The issue of nominating DOST leader Lyutvi Mestan for president has not been discussed within the party, Mestan himself said at a news conference in the party's HQ on Tuesday.
"In any case, DOST will have an active position in relation to the presidential elections irrespective of the forum under which we will participate," Mestan noted. The party will not yield to inferiority complexes when deciding whether to have their own nomination or support a persidential tandem, nominated by others, he observed.
Commenting on the upcoming decision of the Sofia City Court for the registration of DOST, Mestan voiced conviction that "the court would not succumb to nationalist passions and will judge impartially". In his opinion, DOST will be registered because all submitted documents comply with the requirements of the law. All 9,180 new members are Bulgarian citizens with permanent residence as no more than 500 of them live outside the country.
Mestan described the amendments to the Election Code as "criminal" because they divide the Bulgarian nation and deprive the Bulgarian nationals from voting rights. Now, the matter is in the hands of President Rosen Plevneliev because Parliament already has limited possibilities for correcting this error, said the DOST leader. Mestan is supportive of the idea of petitioning the Constitutional Court on the Election Code changes. Apart from the authors of the amendments, GERB, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and ABV are also responsible for the discriminatory texts, he said. According to Mestan, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms are also to be blamed because they were against the establishment of a separate constituency for expatriate Bulgarians.
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