site.btaCC-DB's Kiril Petkov: "If Court Orders New Elections and Peevski Does Not Buy Votes, Then He May Talk about His Civil Rights"

"If the Constitutional Court (CC) annuls the October 27 elections and orders new elections, and Delyan Peevski runs without buying votes, then he can talk to me about his civil rights," Continue the Change co-leader Kiril Petkov said in a Facebook post Tuesday. It was his reaction to a statement by MRF-New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski earlier in the day, where he said that CC-DB's "sanitary cordon" idea for isolating him was "a bout of political schizophrenia".

According to Peevski, the most important thing for CC-DB is to have "members of their gang" as Interior Minister, Prosecutor General, head of the anti-corruption commission, President of the Sofia Appellate Court (SAC) and Chair of the State Agency for National Security (SANS), in order to cover up "everything they have done and plan to do."

"Let's get things straight concerning Peevski's outburst this morning! First, phantoms have no rights, and there are many phantoms in Peevski's party. Only in Garmen [Blagoevgrad region] there are a hundred of them. Second, a real political leader is not the one who falsifies democracy, but the one who fights with ideas to win the hearts and minds of the people," Petkov wrote.

"If we were political opponents on the basis of ideology, even with opposing views, I would have the necessary respect for him. But to cheat the system and end up in Parliament as a product of a falsification of democracy is not dignified and does not show strength. [...]. And to rely on a filthy system that keeps a woman in detention for no real reason for six months, away from her children, and then feel forced to give false testimony against a political opponent, is ugly and immoral," Petkov writes.

The "woman" is Petya Bankova, former director of the Customs Agency, who was arrested for smuggling and it recently transpired that she provided information to the authorities about alleged wrongdoings by CC-DB co-leader Assen Vassilev during his term as Finance Minister.

"So, if the Constitutional Court orders new elections and Peevski runs without buying votes, without forced and corporate voting, without the tally sheets being rewritten [to be forged], then he can talk to me about his civil rights. Now for me his party is illegally elected and our answer to that is a sanitary cordon!" said Petkov.