site.btaYes, Bulgaria Co-chair Mirchev: Vote Showed Bulgaria Has 3 Prime Ministers, Is Ruled by Illegitimate Power Centre

Commenting on Thursday's motion of no confidence against the Government, Ivaylo Mirchev, the Co-chair of Yes, Bulgaria within the Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) parliamentary group, said the motion's defeat showed that the country has three prime ministers – one formal one, Rosen Zhelyazkov, one who really wants to be prime minister but even today is not in the plenary hall to support his own government, and one who is the real prime minister - the person who just left the plenary hall. 

Earlier in the day, the Cabinet of Rosen Zhelyazkov survived a no-confidence motion over failures in the sectors of internal security and justice, and worsening State capture. Immediately after the vote, MRF - New Beginning leader Delian Peevski left the plenary hall, and GERB leader Boyko Borisov did not attend the vote. The motion was submitted on September 12 by CC-DB and Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh), and was co-signed by MPs from the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms.

In Mirchev's words, Bulgaria is ruled by an illegitimate centre of power, and the Government has become its press service, the press service of Peevski, who has various ideas – about shops for people, about changes in laws, about the removal of powers, ideas about crushing any resistance.

Mirchev addressed the MPs of GERB and the "absent Boyko Borissov". "Borissov has gone into hiding again; whenever things get dangerous, whenever things get heated, Boyko Borissov is nowhere to be found," Mirchev commented. Borissov has become an advertising agent for his partner Peevski, Mirchev added. "Colleagues from GERB, have you noticed how you have gone from being the government-forming mandate holder to a political force - companion to Peevski. He is slowly taking over your party, we saw it in Razgrad, in Plovdiv and in Varna," said Mirchev. 

Bulgarians have dignity, and they will protest on Thursday evening and will resist Peevski and his idea of a captured State, Mirchev told journalists.