site.btaVelichie Challenges Anti-Corruption Commission Nomination Committee, Cabinet Vote in Constitutional Court

Velichie submitted two constitutional complaints, Velichie Floor Leader Ivelin Mihaylov told reporters in Parliament on Friday.

He said the party collected the required signatures with support from MECh and Vazrazhdane.

One complaint concerned the illegitimate election of a Nomination Committee set up to select members of the Anti-Corruption Commission. The other challenged the election of the government as unlawful because, Mihaylov said, the Constitutional Court had ruled that eight MPs who voted for that government had been elected unlawfully, removed them from the National Assembly, and replaced them with others.

Illegal elections that produced an illegal parliament, which in turn produced an illegal government, were harming the country—everyone in the State was being replaced, which was tantamount to a coup, Mihaylov commented. He added that he hoped the constitutional judges would have a conscience and save the country from what was happening.

Mihaylov also addressed comments by GERB leader Boyko Borissov, who earlier in the day had said that MPs from Continue the Change (CC) ran so they could collect their pay and register at the last moment. Borissov and MRF Chair and MRF–New Beginning Floor Leader Delyan Peevski worked for one minute a day and enjoyed huge benefits, Mihaylov said. For them to speak about what benefits the President had and what cars he used was absurd, he said. To insult MPs from other parliamentary groups in this way, when they themselves did not work and set such an example for all citizens, was unethical, he added.

Mihaylov also commented on an incident involving a car lent to Velichie. In his view, the young man who was driving should not have taken the wheel in the rain, and the car had been hit at 60 km/h, he said. He added that the crash was not serious, no one had been injured, and the Velichie activist had not been speeding. He apologized to the public for the inconvenience. He said all parts had been ordered so the McLaren would be repaired.