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Ivaylo Mirchev on the "Gyurov" cabinet: All regional governors and police chiefs should be replaced immediately

The "Borisov-Peevski" model has made it so that in a country that has entered Schengen and the eurozone, we can talk about vote buying

Feb 18, 2026 18:24 52

Ivaylo Mirchev on the "Gyurov" cabinet: All regional governors and police chiefs should be replaced immediately  - 1

An interesting team of professionals, each with their own biography, cannot be said to belong to any party, people who have proven themselves over time. But the assessment of this caretaker cabinet will be given by its actions. This was said in the show "Face to Face" on BTV by the co-chairman of "Yes, Bulgaria" and MP from "We continue the change-Democratic Bulgaria" Ivaylo Mirchev in connection with the draft composition of the government presented by the candidate for caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov.

There should be an immediate change of all regional governors who serve the "Borisov-Peevski" model - people must be appointed who will guarantee fair elections. All heads of the ODMVR who serve the "Borisov-Peevski" model must leave immediately. There must be a strong Minister of Justice who will finally expel the impostor who has settled in the office of the Prosecutor General, pointed out novini.bg.

Additional information must be requested from the USA and Great Britain, which have sanctioned individuals in our country. The arguments for the sanctions against Vladislav Goranov stated that money from the lottery was given as bribes to a Bulgarian political leader. At that time, Goranov was the Minister of Finance in the government of Boyko Borisov and we want to find out who the political leader was who was given the bribes, Mirchev said.

The mayors who took pictures under the coat of arms with Peevski so that money would flow to them for the municipalities, it must be done so that the entire corruption faucet of the "Borisov-Peevski" model stops. Forestry enterprises are used as a tool for people to vote correctly. This means that the directors of the forestry enterprises should be replaced, he added.

The "Borisov-Peevski" model has made it so that in a country that entered Schengen and the eurozone, we can talk about vote buying. When we talk in Europe that this is happening in our country, people cannot understand us, the co-chair of "Yes, Bulgaria" pointed out.

In response to a question, he emphasized that the "Continuing Change-Democratic Bulgaria" coalition has no connections with the "Petrohan" National Agency for Control of Protected Areas, which is related to the case.

We want a full investigation of the case, but not for the services to give us a scoop every hour, but for everything to be said. To say about the role of SANS - how many of the people in the group were monitored, what interactions they had with SANS, why the signals were not paid attention to. There is no information from the cells of mobile operators in the vicinity - this is something that is done in five minutes, and we want it to be made public. A tragedy that has a resonance in our society is being used for a political attack. We want everything to be revealed, for there to be a full investigation on all fronts, so that everything can become clear to the public, said Ivaylo Mirchev.

At the beginning of his guest appearance on "Face to Face" he criticized BTV.

The question of the place of television is very important. Over the past six months, there have been indications of compliance with journalistic standards – interviews with opposition leaders were canceled. During the protests, the protesters were presented as lumpen. The largest protests in Bulgaria were presented in a very strange way. Television parted ways with leading journalists such as Maria Tsantsarova and Stoyan Georgiev. These are things that are worrying. At the same time, people like Delyan Peevski, sanctioned under "Magnitsky" are called saviors, every post he makes on social networks is reported in the news, while those of other political leaders – are not. We don't want to live in a country where a politician picks up the phone and says what the news will look like. We want to live in a country where the strong can't even think of picking up the phone to call a television station and order something. Our fight is for the media to be independent, commented the MP from "Continuing Change-Democratic Bulgaria".

Host Tsvetanka Rizova said in response: "I am for freedom of opinion, but to claim that someone is calling the protesters lumpen is not possible for me. And who is calling whom, I have no way of knowing".