"The President is not obliged to schedule the elections this week. There is no such deadline in the Constitution. The assessment is his - he will schedule the elections before or after Easter". This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by Mehmed Dikme - a former MP from the MRF.
"The President does not have a deadline in which to appoint the caretaker cabinet and set a date for the elections. First, we have consultations with the political parties regarding the formation of the caretaker cabinet. Only then will the picture perhaps become a little clearer than it is now. Anything that could be said at the moment might be completely different tomorrow," he commented on the show "Before Everyone."
Dikme doubts that the president will leave the institution to enter the political arena. This is a question that Radev must answer, he emphasized. And he reminded presidents Petar Stoyanov and Georgi Parvanov, who entered political life after their mandates and "literally crashed" - they did not receive the necessary support. "A matter of judgment - exactly when the time will be used, the best time, if the president decides to participate in the elections. If he participates, the political picture will be radically different, and the possibilities for coalitions after the elections will be radically different from the current situation".
Mehmed Dikme once again criticized the constitutional changes that limited the president's choice of an acting prime minister. What will happen if everyone refuses, he asked.
"All the players that the president has the opportunity to appoint are political players. That is, the acting cabinet will not be independent, it will be politically dependent on the people who appointed it".
The former MP from the MRF also commented on the choice of Rumen Radev to give the third mandate to form an APS government. According to him, there is nothing accidental in this choice.
"A person must choose the lesser evil", he emphasized. According to him, however, this is also a clear sign of future cooperation.
"There are many things with conditions here, but we must look for some subtext in the president's decision to award this mandate".
Ethnic peace is not built on the wishes of politicians, Mehmed Dikme was also categorical and explained:
"Ethnic peace in Bulgaria is built on good relations between all ethnic groups, including Bulgarians - Turks who live in Bulgaria. No one can disrupt this ethnic peace, the exact opposite will happen to anyone who tries to play around and disrupt it. Neither Peevski, nor the president, nor Borisov, nor anyone else can disrupt the good relations of the people who live in Bulgaria. They live in peace, tranquility and good neighborliness, with respect for traditions and respect for the rights and freedoms of every citizen".
He emphasized that many people from minorities were also present at the protests in December:
"They did not come out against one or the other, they came out against the status quo, against the model of government. Both Turks and Bulgarians do not accept this model of government".
According to him, if in the future GERB will seek such a coalition as it is at the moment, nothing will change, and the protests will continue, but this time they will be much larger. "Maybe people will already be with sticks, because if today the youth were on the streets, tomorrow their parents will come out too, and they will certainly react much more sharply", he believes.