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Reformist Bloc
Will Not Create Hindrances to
Formation of Right-of-Centre Government


Sofia, October 27 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc (RB) will not
create obstacles to the formation of a right-of-centre
government, RB Co-Floor Leader Meglena Kuneva said at the
opening of the 43rd National Assembly. "We declare our full
readiness to assume political and personal responsibility in
fulfillment of our duty to stability. We urge the political
forces to support a right-of-centre cabinet with clear political
responsibility of their leaderships," said she.

RB encourages GERB, being the first political force, to perform
their assigned role of mandate-holder and form a steady
government. "However, we do not do this unconditionally but
against clear guarantees of reforms," she observed.

The other RB Co-Floor Leader Radan Kanev said that the
newly-elected MPs have three main tasks: to begin the
restoration of confidence in Parliament and parliamentarianism,
to launch the important reforms, the delay of which put the very
existence of the law-based state to the test and the
establishment of a responsible and daring government. This
government should be given a strong and clear legislative
framework and rules that would prevent it from abusing public
power and further undermining the prestige of democracy.

According to RB, a minority cabinet would be the third one not
to serve its full term. "We should form a government in
accordance with the will of the Bulgarian people but not a
government of everybody that would leave the Bulgarian people in
opposition," Kanev said.

RB will not allow violation of the human rights and the European
norms of tolerance to diversity. However, they would not allow
"using the card of the human rights as an umbrella for
corruption and outrages in the Bulgarian justice system," he
added.

"We should all accept our presence here as a necessity or an act
of personal submission. Let's forget the fake self-confidence
of affiliation to Bulgaria's national elite," Kanev appealed.
Unfortunately, the national elite rarely enters the building of
the National Assembly, he added. /LI/TK/