The truth is that the elections have a winner, and this is Rumen Radev. I congratulate him! May he be successful, but still moderate and restrained. The only thing I accused him of during these months was that he did not come out much earlier. He would have saved Bulgaria a lot of wasted time. He apologized, which is also worthy. I myself understood how difficult it is to enter politics without structures and a party organization. It clearly took him time, but he did an excellent job. This was written by the leader of the coalition “Shine“ Nikolay Popov.
"When necessary, we will be a tough civil opposition. In the name of the truth. We will not be silent. We have a pure cause. The others who deserve congratulations are PP-DB, because they increased their result despite the black campaign that was waged against them. I note this fact, even though some of them were behind the attacks against me. That's how I was raised," he also wrote.
"Last but not least, the moral winner of these elections is you and “Shine“. Those who believed in me - an ordinary father who turned his worst tragedy into a cause. Your support is enormous and “Shine“ has officially risen on the public map of Bulgaria. We have accomplished a feat. We started from zero and reached almost 100,000 votes, a threshold that few have crossed and which, with any other activity, would have meant crossing the barrier," Popov believes.
According to him, many of their votes were stolen and redirected to GERB and DPS in order to stay afloat.
"They won't succeed again! I won't abandon you, just as you didn't abandon me. And although outside the parliament, I will be your voice that will resonate strongly before every authority. We are confidently starting to build “Shine“ as an unprecedented in scale and energy civic platform that will be an unavoidable factor. We have laid the foundations, now we are starting monolithic construction," he concluded.