The Movement of Rights and Freedoms (MRF) faction supporting Honorary Chair Ahmed Dogan has submitted documents to run in the October 27 snap parliamentary elections as a stand-alone party, the faction said in a social media post on Monday. "Following up on the refusal of the Central Election Commission to register our coalition, we submitted documents backed with 5,240 signatures, for MRF with leader Dr Ahmed Dogan and Chair Associate Professor Dr. Dzhevdet Chakarov, to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections as a stand-alone party," the post says.
That is the latest development in a saga that has threatened the participation in the elections of the two MRF factions: Democracy, Rights and Freedoms-MRF (DRF-MRF) of Dogan and his supporters, and MRF-New Beginning of Delyan Peevski. Both factions formed coalitions to run in the elections and submitted their papers to the Central Election Commission (CEC) simultaneously, hoping to gain advantage over the rival. None did and their files were registered by CEC with the same time and with no entry number. Next, CEC instructed the two coalitions to make sure MRF us removed from them as the law allows one party to be in one coalition only. Both coalitions said they would not comply. As a result, earlier on Monday CEC refused to register any of the two coalitions for the elections. The decisions for both were made in a unanimous vote of 15 votes.
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