site.btaUPDATED Two More Cabinet Members Must Go, TISP Says

"Tzitzelkov has fallen, and it is Yankulov's turn," There Is Such a People (TISP) Deputy Floor Leader Stanislav Balabanov told journalists in Parliament's lobby on Friday. He was referring to the resignation earlier in the day of Stoil Tzitzelkov as carertaker deputy prime minister. Andrey Yankulov is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in Andrey Gurov's caretaker Cabinet that took office on Thursday.

"TISP will excise the 'Petrohan tumor', which is currently called caretaker cabinet," Balabanov said further. In his words, some members of the caretaker Cabinet are linked to the Petrohan case. He was referring to a high-profile criminal case in which five men and a 15-year-old boy met a violent death between February 1 and 8. Their bodies were found in two remote mountain locations in Northwestern Bulgaria: a lodge near the Petrohan Pass and a camper van near Okolchitsa Peak. Forensic experts established that all six died of gunshot wounds. Law enforcement officials said the principal leads they followed, based on ballistics findings, the causes of death have been identified as suicide at the lodge and homicide and suicide in the camper.   

Balabanov described the caretaker Cabinet as "a well organized and solidly finder NGOs, full of personalities who have been compromised from the very first day". 

"God forbid that they make yet another mistake by a figure head like Tzitzelkov," he said, approached about a possible successor to the deputy PM.

"It's Hristanov's turn, too," said TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov, referring to Agriculture and Food Minister Ivan Hristanov.

"These are hollow ministries, they can as well set up a ministry of the pink flamingo and put some buddy of Gurov at its head," Yordanov said, asked whether аnother minister is expected to replace Tzitzelkov.

The TISP Floor Leader argued that President Iliana Iotova is responsible for the caretaker Cabinet because she picked Gurov for prime minister.

Earlier on Friday, Yordanov said, addressing a plenary sitting of Parliament, that "every minute Stoil Tzitzelkov remains deputy prime minister is an offence to Bulgarian society, democracy and parliamentarianism."

He further explained that on September 23, 2014, Tzitzelkov was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol with blood alcohol level of 1.5 per mille on May 8, 2011.

Reacting to President Iliana Iotova's statement that she would have asked for the Deputy PM's resignation earlier if she had been aware that those reports were true, Yordanov said that he can send her the judgment of the court and added that Tzitzelkov resisted arrest and has two more criminal records for 55 grams marijuana use.

Yordanov further stated that caretaker Prime Minister Gurov had selected Tzitzelkov for the office and should take the responsibility for this.