site.btaDelyan Peevski Says He Is MRF-New Beginning's Only Leader as of Today

Delyan Peevski Saturday said that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) - New Beginning has only one leader - himself - as of November 16 and that Dzhevdet Chakarov was expelled. Peevski talked to reporters after a Central Council meeting of the MRF-New Beginning.
 
He said the participants decided "to expel all who excluded themselves from the party, who are now members of another coalition". They lost the right to be part of the MRF, Peevski said, wishing them "success in their Agrarian project".

He also said that "if Mr Dogan had not split MRF to Moscow's benefit," Bulgaria would have had a Euro-Atlantic government by now.

Peevski and Chakarov were the two chairmen of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms until it split in July into two factions - one loyal to MRF founder and honorary chairman Ahmed Dogan and another led by Peevski. The faction loyal to Dogan ran in the October 27 parliamentary elections as the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms (ARF), a coalition registered by the Agrarian People's Union and the Just Bulgaria United Patriots. Peevski led the MRF-New Beginning and won 30 seats in the elections, while the ARF won 19 seats.

Asked if the Council meeting on Saturday had discussed the election of Parliament's chairperson and the formation of a government, Peevski said the responsibility falls on GERB, which won the elections, and its leader Boyko Borissov. All the groups in this Parliament put themselves first and do not think about people's problems, he commented.

Peevski said that if "this helplessness" continues, new elections should be held because a clear winner is needed to form a government. He argued that President Rumen Radev was behind the formation of several parties and that "in three years he showed how helpless he is and surrounded himself with robbers who bring him cash". He reiterated his allegation that the President's Domestic Policy Secretary Nikolay Koprinkov had been involved in corruption through public procurement. Peevski urged Radev to take a polygraph test and prove that he and Koprinkov were not involved in the largest scale corruption.

Asked if the President is his main opponent, Peevski said Radev had "ruined the country".

Asked if he is guarded by the National Service for Protection (NSP), Peevski said he was not the right person to answer that question.

On Friday, the parliamentary group of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) asked the NSP chief, Major General Emil Tonev, why the service provided cars to Delyan Peevski. CC-DB's Kiril Petkov said on Facebook the letter to Gen. Tonev had also been sent to President Radev.