site.btaGrandeur's Ivelin Mihaylov: "We Don't Want to Leave EU, NATO"

"Our data show that we have won between 5 and 9% of the vote, it should be more. We will have an MEP, too," Grandeur Party leader Ivelin Mihaylov said on National Television Sunday evening after Bulgaria's elections for National Assembly and European Parliament on June 9.

Asked why Grandeur is not together with the Vazrazhdane Party, Mihaylov answered that they have different views of what should happen. "We believe that the economy must be set in motion so that we could have internal cash flows instead of counting on external ones all the time," the Grandeur leader added.

"Vazrazhdane's basic position is that Bulgaria's bad situation is due to external factors, whereas we believe that internal factors are to blame. We do not want to leave the EU and NATO because this is not a priority for a state. For this reason, we do not have a problem with the EU and NATO, we have a problem with domestic corruption, the internal problems in the country, and we must tackle them," he explained.

Nikolay Markov, who is Grandeur's top-of-the list candidate in the European elections, said that the first thing to be expected is to restore the parliamentary republic which, in his opinion, does not exist in Bulgaria now. Markov argued that there is no rule of law. "We intend you to show you real policy making and how missing things get done fast," the candidate added.