site.btaThere Is Such a People Party Registers for April Elections, Pledges to Push for Balanced Budget in Next Parliament

There Is Such a People (TISP) party submitted documents to the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Thursday to register for participation in the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for April 19.

TISP will do everything possible in the next parliament to ensure that the state budget is balanced, said TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov.

"We submitted 5,000 signatures and collected as many more, but you know the CEC procedure - they have to be entered electronically. We are going to elections and Bulgarians will decide," Yordanov added.

He said that TISP adheres to clear conservative values. The party will oppose any attempts to "cover up" what he referred to as the "Petrohan Cabinet", will defend the traditional Bulgarian family and traditional relations between a man and a woman, and firmly opposes same-sex marriage and adoption of children by such couples. TISP also supports a strict policy on irregular migration, arguing that illegal migrants have no place in the country, Yordanov said.

"These are the standard positions defended by a right-wing conservative party, and we prove that in practice. The 'Petrohan Cabinet' is suffering damage thanks to TISP, because we expose the mistakes they have made," Yordanov noted.

Yordanov refers to the caretaker Cabinet of Andrey Gurov as the "Petrohan Cabinet" because TISP holds the position that the Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria parliamentary group is involved in both the current caretaker Cabinet and the Petrohan-Okolchitsa Case - a high-profile criminal case in which five men and a 15-year-old boy met a violent death between February 1 and 8. 

Asked what results the party expects, given that some polling agencies do not show TISP above the electoral threshold, Yordanov replied: "Most polling agencies don't put us on the map, and then we end up in Parliament. So we expect the same."