MRF Chairman Peevski to Dogan: "I will not give up. I am not a traitor.”

"I will not give up and I will not betray the people who gave me their trust! I am not a traitor! No one can stop the New Beginning!", Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Chairman Delyan Peevski said in a press release in response to a letter by MRF Honorary Chairman Ahmed Dogan to party members, published earlier on July 10. Dogan's letter calls for the resignations of MRF Chairman Delyan Peevski, and 5 other MRF mebers.

"Something presented like this, sent by a group of factionalists, raises reasonable doubts about its authenticity. But! Even if it is so, what is happening.”

"Reminiscences of bygone times in which groups of people, structures and persons were wiped out 'from above' with a single phone call or a single fax?", Peevski says.

MRF Honorary Chair Dogan calls for the resignations of Peevski and 5 other members

"Is this an apotheosis of the struggle for democracy, rights and legality or an authoritarian approach incompatible with the rule of law?" he adds.

"Unfortunately, this is exactly what is becoming a living example that Europe and the democratic world will look at, to say the least, with puzzlement. The given assessments are untenable and the demand for resignations - devoid of any form of implementation of the MRF Statute, which is so much talked about these days," So what!? What will this demand lead to!” Peevski says.

"At the apogee of the MRF, which we took to the second political power and the record number of MPs in all 34 years, whose will is it that wants to break this success!?

"And who will bear the responsibility to those who voted this trust in us and entrusted us with the hopes of their own lives!? Or are they again being asked to remain silent and obey the superiors who have used them for so long. This is unacceptable and impossible. And no, I will not give up and betray the people who have given me their trust."

"I am not a traitor! I stand by my word! From now on, the path is clear. My team and I continue with our commitments, for the New Beginning, for a better and wiser Tomorrow. We will be with the people and beside the people".

As a PS Peevski says: "Ahmed Dogan and I know each other too well and we both know what the truth is. History will show that I was right. No one can stop the New Beginning".