site.btaMECh Will Accept All Decisions Related to Reinstating Their Parliamentary Group

“MECh will accept all decisions of the National Assembly that will reinstate our parliamentary group, which has been dissolved illegally, outside any rules, so that I could be hit,” leader Radostin Vasilev told a news briefing in Parliament on Tuesday.

In his words, after her unprecedented mistake, National Assembly Chair Nataliya Kiselova has half-mouthedly proposed options for a way out of the parliamentary crisis she has created. Vasilev thanked her, as well as the parliamentary groups for their support, but said that MECh continues to demand Kiselova's resignation because she is not doing her job as leader of the National Assembly.

The protests, the reaction, our actions are the result of the attacks against me, explained Vasilev. He said that on Wednesday morning, outside the parliament building, there will be a protest against the "thugs in the government". However, if the MECh group is reinstated with all the rights that this entails, they will not interfere in the work of Parliament, because they view parliamentary work extremely responsibly.

Ms Kiselova should not be afraid for herself, but for her career, for the image she has created in society over the past three days, the MECh leader said. Vasilev said that they have seen the draft resolution of There Is Such a Nation and tomorrow at a leaders’ council they will insist on the reinstatement of the parliamentary group of MECh.

“Whether GERB likes the fact that I am the deputy chairman of the Bulgarian parliament does not matter. Every parliamentary group, formation that has passed the 4% barrier will have a deputy chairman and in this regard there will be a draft decision related to my election as such,” Vasilev said.

At a briefing on Tuesday in Parliament, GERB-UDF said that in their opinion Radostin Vasilev is not worthy to be deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

At this stage, the MECh leader believes that he has not violated the Constitution and committed no crime with the recordings [of his conversations with Kiselova, which he threatened to make public]. “What Ms Kiselova thinks, unfortunately, no longer matters because she violated the Constitution,” Vasilev added. Depending on developments on Wednesday, he will decide whether to release the recording. He urged Kiselova to say who the experts are who are "pressuring" her.

MECh will participate in a vote of no confidence in the government, Vasilev said. replying to a question. They are going to discuss with Vazrazhdane, which has already prepared it on the grounds of the foreign policy, whether the subject and the motives can be changed, because MECh also has its own motives about regional policy.

Asked whether he regretted the sharp language he had used immediately after the announcement last Friday about the dissolution of the MECh group, he replied: “I do not regret a single word I have said, because that is the only way I made everyone see this impunity in Parliament. If anyone felt personally offended, I apologize, but I am not the cause of all this. I speak from the rostrum in Parliament, some speak in "dark rooms" and take decisions against the will of the people, the MP said.