The goal of Vazrazhdane is to win upcoming snap parliamentary elections, become the leading political force and govern Bulgaria, party leader Kostadin Kostadinov told media representatives in Pleven on Saturday. He is in the city for an organizational council meeting of Vazrazhdane dedicated to the party’s election campaign. The meeting will discuss the campaign and the main objectives set by the party.
According to Kostadinov, the current Parliament is “exhausted, worn out and harmful, and the sooner it becomes part of history, the better”. He expressed the view that previous parliaments had also been such, because the time of so-called Euro-Atlantic Bulgaria has definitively come to an end. This includes, he said, the forced inclusion of Bulgaria in the euro area and the adoption of a foreign currency, as a result of which Bulgaria no longer has its own, he added.
In his words, all this has led to a categorical verdict that Bulgarian citizens will deliver at the forthcoming elections against Bulgaria’s Euro-Atlantic elite. “It is high time for Bulgaria to be re-founded as a state, and it is high time to restore our freedom and independence. The main goal of Vazrazhdane after winning the parliamentary elections will be the restoration of the Bulgarian national currency, the restoration of Bulgarian independence and Bulgaria’s withdrawal from the euro area,” he said.
Asked what they would do if the President Rumen Radev were to hand them a mandate to form a government, Kostadinov replied that it is not known to whom the third mandate will be given. The party believes that this mandate should be terminated as quickly as possible, meaning that whoever receives it should immediately return it to the President so that elections can be scheduled. Bulgaria has no more time to lose, Kostadinov said.
On Friday, the President’s press secretariat said that the head of state, Rumen Radev, will hand the first mandate to form a government to the largest parliamentary group in the 51st National Assembly, GERB-UDF. The move is part of a standard procedure which follows the resignation of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s government, which was announced on December 11 and accepted by the National Assembly the following day.
“Whether by sea, by land or by air, war is being waged everywhere at the moment. There is no way we can accept something like this, and we at Vazrazhdane have clearly and categorically stated that we do not recognise this commitment, nor do we recognise all other actions of this government, which are absolutely unlawful. Both the government and the parliament have already exhausted their time. The sooner we go to elections, the better,” Kostadinov emphasized.
Commenting on calls for the resignation of acting Prossecutor General Borislav Sarafov, Kostadinov said that Sarafov “should be held criminally liable for the fact that he is currently unlawfully occupying the office of Prosecutor General.”