site.btaMRF Honorary Chair Ahmed Dogan, Chair Dzhevdet Chakarov to Be Top-of-the-List Candidates in Razgrad

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Honorary Chair Ahmed Dogan and Dzhevdet Chakarov, one of the two party leaders, who has remained loyal with Dogan, will be the party's top-of-the-list candidates in the northeastern constituency of Razgrad, said here Thursday Beytula Sali of the MRF local chapter in Samuil, northeastern Bulgaria.

According to an announcement by the MRF press office on Facebook earlier in the day, Dogan was in the MRF headquarters for consultations on the candidates' lists.

Asked if it would be Dogan who would say who goes in the candidates' lists, MP Valentin Tonchev said that it would be decided by the collective bodies of the party.

Tonchev said, "The lists will be put together by the collective bodies of the party. That is something Delyan Peevski and his aides were expelled from the party - because they destroyed the collective bodies of the party," Tonchev said.

Delyan Peevski is the other party chair and the head of a rival faction after a rift over control in the party. He was expelled by Dogan's wings along with his aides, after expelling Dogan's loyalists from the MRF group.

 Tonchev added that the MRF structures "want Dogan to lead all candidates lists but the law does not allow that". 

Peevski's faction of MRF will be running in the October 27 elections in the MRF-New Beginning coalition. Dogan's faction will be running in the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms coalition.