site.btaTISP Floor Leader: If CC-DB Receives Second Mandate, We Will Accept Invitation for Talks

"If the second mandate is handed to Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), we will accept an invitation for talks for forming a cabinet," There Is Such a People (TISP) Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov told journalists in Parliament on Thursday.

TISP will send invitations to all political parties in Parliament, if they are handed the third mandate. "We will also talk to independent MPs," Yordanov said, adding that TISP will talk to all who invite them.

The cabinet should have a clear programme and deadlines for the implementation of the priorities, Yordanov said. "If the deadlines are not met, the public has the right to say who bears the political responsibility," TISP MP Stanislav Balabanov.

"Democratic Bulgaria leaders believe that a government needs to be made. Continue the Change continue to claim that they will be in opposition to everything. If the mandate goes to them, who do we talk to? One wants it, the other does not. We will talk to those who want it," Yordanov said.

It is very interesting, Toshko Yordanov said when asked how the "war in the MRF" is affecting the political life in the country.

"Apart from TISP and Vazrazhdane no one wants to hold referendums. The point of democracy is for the majority of a country's citizens to tell the government what to do. This is direct democracy," Yordanov said of a statement of MRF chairman Delyan Peevski that MRF is categorically against the attempts of anti-European and pro-Russian parties to play with the topic "referendum on the euro". Vazrazhdane and TISP are submitting a proposal to Parliament to call a referendum on the preservation the Bulgarian lev.

"We are against what Vazrazhdane wants. We believe that Bulgaria should join the euro area when it is ready, not postpone it until 2043, but the people must decide. During the referendum campaign all parties will be able to convince the citizens," Yordanov said.

"Today, we are submitting two bills - to change referendums by easing the possibilities of holding national and local referendums and making their decisions binding. The second bill is related to the issue that the protesting people of Dospat have," Yordanov explained. "The Mayor there acts like a feudal lord and it is not only the mayor of Dospat." With the changes the Construction Supervision Directorate Yordanov will determine what the mayor must do, Yordanov and Balabanov explained.

"We want to make it so that for a national referendum to be binding, 1/40th of the people with voting rights have to support it. For local referendums it would be 1/20th," Balabanov explained. Another proposal is to extend the three-month period for collecting signatures to six.