site.btaDzhevdet Chakarov on Second Cabinet-Forming Mandate: MRF Would Show Readiness for Dialogue, Let's See CC-DB's Programme

Asked Friday whether the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) would support a government proposed by Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) under the second exploratory mandate, MRF Co-Chairman Dzhevdet Chakarov told reporters the party would show reason and readiness for dialogue. "Let us see what programme they [CC-DB] would set as goals. We are led by the position that there is a political crisis and need to stabilize the political situation" he added.

Chakarov also told journalists that it would be good if the other parliamentary groups realized their responsibilities, the way it happened in the early 1990s. Back then, the parties from all wings managed to unite in the name of Bulgaria. "We are ready for dialogue and if there are reasonable proposals, we would back them," he added. 

Chakarov also commented on him and 16 other MPs of the MRF getting expelled from the parliamentary group on Thursday. One cannot talk about a rift at all, he said. "We have been observing the principles and goals ever since the MRF's establishment," he noted, adding that it should not come to them getting expelled.

Knowing very well that it is at the basis of the ethnic model in Bulgaria, the MRF is for unity and togetherness of everybody in Bulgaria, Chakarov commented further. "We are together with the colleagues, we should be together. We are a liberal party that covers all fields," he added.