site.btaVelichie Leader Ivelin Mihaylov: No Support for Velichie’s No-confidence Vote by Vazrazhdane Would Mean Sabotaging the Opposition

Speaking to journalists in Parliament on Friday, Ivelin Mihaylov, leader of Velichie, commented on the cooperation between opposition parties on the newly proposed motions of no confidence against the government of Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov. “Support for Vazrazhdane’s future initiatives depends on the support they provide for our motion of no confidence. If they do not support us now, this will mean that they are sabotaging the opposition in the process of removing the government and are somehow playing with it,” Mihaylov said.

Earlier, Radostin Vasilev, leader of Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh), said the parliamentary group would support Velichie's proposal for a no-confidence vote, but not the proposal tabled by Vazrazhdane.

"I cannot say that there is disagreement between opposition forces, it is more that they have clear positions," Mihaylov said. “MECh’s position is that they will support us 100%, the support we might receive from Democracy, Rights and Freedoms is around 80-90% at the moment, but they would like to see our motives, and Vazrazhdane want us to collect the signatures of Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) as a condition for support, which at this stage is impossible, in view of what CC-DB have declared - until the Convergence Report they will not support any motions of no confidence,” the leader of Velichie explained.

At the meeting of representatives of the Vazrazhdane and Velichie parliamentary groups earlier on Friday, Mihaylov said that such behaviour means that Vazrazhdane have chosen the road to achieving their purposes, as promised to their voters, on their own, and this will be clearly stated by the rest of the opposition parties in the National Assembly. "Vazrazhdane’s voters urgently need to see the government collapse, to ensure that Bulgaria’s euro area accession will fail," the leader of Velichie believes.

Mihaylov explained that the no-confidence vote Velichie is working on will have repercussions beyond Bulgarian borders, because it is linked to non-compliance with EU environmental and ecological legislation.