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MRF Warns of Conspiracy to Install One-Party Government System

Sofia, July 8 (BTA) - Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF)
Chairman Lyutvi Mestan on Wednesday warned of a conspiracy to
install a one-party government system in Bulgaria by changing
election rules.

Reading a declaration in Parliament on behalf of his
parliamentary group, Mestan said that a planned referendum on
election rules is aimed to introduce a dual pattern of
proportional representation and majority voting in order to
change the system of government. There is a push to lower the
referendum validity standard in order to force Parliament to
adopt the dual pattern. As a result of that, Bulgaria will be
ruled by successive one-party governments which will likely be
authoritarian governments as the Interior Ministry becomes "both
 the face and the soul of the modern Bulgarian state," Mestan
said.

According to him, the recent Greek referendum showed that it is
good to hold referendums more often, not on expert issues but on
 value-related matters, which can improve the representative
form of government. But when the authorities of an EU member
state resort to a referendum in order to shift their
responsibility onto the people, this is bad for the country and
the EU, Mestan argued.