The Chairman of the Control Council of "Continue the Change" (PP) Alexander Rusanov announced that he is leaving his post. His decision comes immediately after today's vote in the National Assembly, in which the PP-DB parliamentary group voted "against" President Rumen Radev's proposal to hold a national referendum on the euro. "I am leaving the position of Chairman of the Control Council of We Continue the Change - extremely disappointed and disgusted", Rusanov wrote in an emotional post on the social network Facebook.
In his reasons for leaving, the lawyer expresses disagreement with the political line of the party, which, according to him, has betrayed its original principles.
"The beautiful facade behind which insidious goals are hidden is not and will never be the home of the struggle for a pure and holy republic,", Rusanov declares.
He makes serious accusations to his party members for collaborating with the political forces against which the party was created to fight.
"For years we have been claiming that we are fighting the pig and the pumpkin, and today we are voting together with them, in the midst of the biggest protests in 35 years - this is an insult to all the people who took to the streets recently days", adds the former chairman of the PP control body.
The reason for the reaction is today's decision of the National Assembly, which finally rejected the head of state's request for a referendum on the introduction of the single European currency. The proposal was rejected with 135 votes "against", mainly from the GERB-SDF, PP-DB and MRF groups.
Alexander Rusanov has also published a photo from the electronic scoreboard in the plenary hall, showing the distribution of votes, as an illustration of his arguments for "voting together" with opponents.