site.btaMECh Leader Vasilev: We Are Expecting Velichie in Parliament, This Changes Nothing

“We have been expecting Velichie for several months in Parliament, they are welcome, this is justice after all,” MECh leader Radostin Vasilev told journalists in Parliament, speaking ahead of an upcoming decision of the Constitutional Court on the legality of the October 27 general elections.

It was not normal for a party to be out of the Bulgarian parliament for 20 votes, he said. "We are expecting Velichie. This changes almost nothing. We see that Peevski will support this government," Vasilev said, adding that they will see how the MPs of Velichie will position themselves in parliament.

"We received some preliminary information that in fact we are losing three seats and gaining two others," the MECh leader said. “We are losing Smolyan, Veliko Tarnovo and Kardzhali, and we gain one each in Montana and in Lovech,” he said when asked which MP they will lose.

According to the MECh leader, the Constitutional Court should have annulled the elections entirely. "It should have recounted the votes in all the polling stations and the election should have been annulled in its entirety. It is clear to everyone that this was not a fair election," he said. Now the signal is - on the one hand, there is fairness, because they will probably have the votes they need to get in in Parliament, on the other hand - four institutions can't manage in five months with 2,000 polling stations,” Vasilev added.