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MRF Party Proposes More Radical Version of Referendum Question about Majority Voting

Sofia, June 17 (BTA) - The Movement for Rights and Freedoms
(MRF) will propose a change to one of the three questions which
will be asked in a national referendum coinciding with the local
 elections this autumn. According to the party, the question
about majority voting in political elections should read: "Do
you agree that all 240 members of Parliament must be elected by
majority voting?", MRF Chairman Lyutvi Mestan told a news
conference in the National Assembly on Wednesday.

According to Mestan, this is the way the people want to be
asked, not whether only part of the MPs should be elected by
majority voting.

MRF will support a possible transition to a majority voting
system, although the party repeatedly objected to the change in
the past, because it would be ruinous to small parties and
political pluralism. "We will not stand to lose from majority
voting," Mestan said. MRF's version of the question is aimed to
"pull down the masks in Bulgarian politics," he said. "If you
look at how everyone votes on our proposal, you will know who is
 a hypocrite, who is a demagogue - and who sincerely cares for
the sovereign [i.e. the people]," he said.

If the National Assembly rejects the proposal, MRF may launch a
sign-in campaign to collect at least 500,000 signatures from
citizens in favour of holding a referendum on the "100 per cent
majority voting" question, Mestan said.

"Apart from GERB, the rightists are against compulsory voting,
it does not suit them, but they do not have the courage to admit
 it," he said, referring to the question of compulsory voting
which will also be asked in the upcoming referendum.

"It is an illusion that by changing the election system we will
change the quality of the political system," Mestan argued.