site.btaPresident Radev Reiterates His Lack of Connection to Treti Mart Movement

President Rumen Radev said at the start of November that the Treti Mart [March 3, Bulgaria's Liberation Day] Movement, the movement for presidential republic as well as any other derivatives have nothing to do with him and the presidential institution, the head of State's press secretariat said on Monday. They were responding to "questions and inquiries from citizens regarding the claims of the newly formed Treti Mart party  that it considers President Radev its informal leader."

On December 20, the Treti Mart movement began the process of forming a political party, announcing in Nessebar (on the Black Sea) the creation of an initiative committee to establish the party. The movement's Chairman, Tihomir Atanasov, told reporters that the movement supports President Radev's policies and accepts him as its informal leader, specifying that this is a form of civic support. 

On November 1, Radev said in response to a journalist's question that people everywhere are insisting that he form his own party. "Only the party that I personally announce can be my party," Radev said at the time, adding that Treti Mart Movement, Movement for a Presidential Republic, and any other derivatives have nothing to do with him and the presidential institution.