Bozhidar Bozhanov, co-chair of "Yes, Bulgaria", commented to BNT on the vote of no confidence and the resignation of Interior Minister Daniel Mitov requested by the PP-DB due to the beating of the police chief in Ruse. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said that the motives were copied from the EC Rule of Law Report.
"I am surprised by the Prime Minister's superficial view of the vote of no confidence. The motives include quoting the EC Rule of Law Report. This does not mean that they were copied. I am sure that the Prime Minister makes this distinction and does not honor such nagging. He knows very well that the latest Rule of Law Report also includes the first half of 2025. It also includes reporting on progress on the measures recommended in 2024. All of this is criticism of the current government".
Bozhakov answered whether the motives should be considered in a plenary session.
"The topics of the vote of no confidence are justice and internal affairs. There has been no vote of no confidence for such topics. It can be found somewhere in the motives that were cited in previous votes of no confidence, but it is frivolous to talk about unconstitutionality because of such cases".
Bozhidar Bozhanov rejected the possibility of a joint presidential candidate with GERB.
"There is no way that the opposition and the ruling party can have a joint presidential candidate. We said it last week, I'm saying it again now - for the opposition and the ruling party to have a common candidate is political schizophrenia.
The co-chairman of "Yes, Bulgaria" stated that their opinion on Mitov's resignation remains the same.
"No event has occurred since the last time we requested it until now. The Ministry of Interior continues to dig deeper and deeper into the issue with Ruse. The latest striking example is how the minister says that the limit is 30 km/h, and the sign for the limit was placed after the incident. Such indicators have accumulated that the Ministry of Interior is acting the way it always acts. It is trying to cover something up, trying to hide something, like the recordings under the pillars of the Council of Ministers during the protests about police violence, as in many other cases. And, unfortunately, trust in the Ministry of Interior is systematically low, precisely because of such actions. Mitov's fault is that in the first possible case, instead of coming out and calming the situation and saying there will be an investigation, everything will be according to the law, he came out and politicized the case, blaming the opposition and the media for practically what happened. This, in my opinion, fueled a lot of public discontent, which in turn erupted with the publication of the recording, which refutes some of the official and unofficial statements issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.