site.btaVazrazhdane Leader Criticizes MRF - New Beginning, CC-DB for Allying with Ruling Majority

Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov told reporters in Parliament on Wednesday that every no-confidence vote is a double stress test - both for the government, whether the ruling majority behind it will stand, and for the opposition, whether it will be able to bring down this government. He spoke shortly after the debate on the no-confidence motion that his party tabled due to the government's alleged failures in its foreign policy. Kostadinov criticized the Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning and Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) for choosing to ally with the ruling majority.

He stated that there is no argument that CC-DB can use to deny being in favour of the government.

Kostadinov said that his party's arguments were not refuted. He was adamant that Bulgarian foreign policy poses the most serious threat even to the country's territorial integrity. "We have seen the requiem of Bulgarian statehood," he concluded.

Kostadinov reported that his party will begin negotiations with the other two political forces that supported them, Velichie and Morality, Unity, Honour, on collecting signatures for another vote of no confidence against the government on the issue of corruption.