site.btaSome Ministers Are Acting Like Party Secretaries, MRF Floor Leader Peevski Says

There are ministers who have turned into party secretaries and this is wrong, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Floor Leader Delyan Peevski told journalists in Parliament.

"They are ministers of Bulgaria, they should work for the people and not go to events as party activists," he added. In his words, the President's administration has already turned into party headquarters. "I am glad that I managed to get the President out of the comfort of his chair and admitted that he is becoming a political leader, Delyan Peevski said, adding that the party's name is "Third of March".

Asked whether the MRF believes that many of the ministries are falling short in their work, as GERB leader Boyko Borissov said earlier in the day, Peevski asked that his party be made familiar with the results first. "We have observations for each ministry through the committees, when the time comes we will say what we think," he said.

The 24 Chasa daily wrote in a story a couple of days ago that a presidential project has been rumoured for a long time, and last year Radev himself "led" a popular movement in support of keeping March 3 (Liberation Day) as Bulgaria's national holiday. The idea of changing the date of the national holiday to May 24 (Day of Slavic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture) was among the proposed constitutional amendments. Shortly thereafter, politicians and public figures linked to the head of State set up an initiative committee to collect signatures for a referendum on keeping the date of the national holiday. Among them were MEP Petar Vitanov and former sports minister Vesela Lecheva. It is the initiative committee "Third of March" that is being considered as the basis for a future presidential project. The media outlet says it made a check which shows that a registration from the Patent Office was obtained for the trademark "Third of March Movement" on December 5. The documents for it were filed back on August 4, 2023, by Lecheva, who left the BSP a month ago. The trademark is reserved for 10 years. The scope of the movement's activities is broadly spelled out - political fundraising and financial sponsorship services, advertising and communications of all kinds, commercial purposes, economic forecasting, public opinion polling, human resources consulting and more. Political rumours are increasingly persistent that the presidential project will be up and running by March 3 this year, and will enter the European elections in June, the story reads.