Lyutvi Mestan, the former head of Bulgaria’s second-largest opposition party DPS, vowed to stay in politics despite recent developments. Speaking at a press conference with his wife and with lawmakers who quit the DPS’s group in Parliament, saying they would “follow him”, he asserted he had done to change the party’s “pro-Russian” image. He added the Bulgarian national interest should be associated with NATO and the EU, and not with Russia.Mestan called his removal from the chairman’s office and his expulsion from the party “a ritual execution”.He was dismissed as the Movement of Rights and Freedoms (DPS)’s leader and …read more
Source: Novinite
