Rosen Kosturkov, one of the founders of "We continue the change" in Plovdiv and a member of its leadership, announced that he will not participate in the parliamentary elections in June.
"Friends,
I have decided not to take part in the elections for the 50th National Assembly, and most likely not for any other.
For my close relatives, friends and colleagues, this decision is not surprising, because we considered it together several months ago.
My entry into politics was not a random process. It was long considered. The time had come to give my contribution to make the place we live in better, to change the things we consider wrong, to draw the right path of development of our country, of our economy, of our being.
Unfortunately, in order to be effective in political circles in Bulgaria, you have to master hypocrisy, you have to be impudent and insolent, you have to not have, and God forbid, stand up for your principles, you have to be ready at any moment to stick a knife in the back of your fellow man, no matter how ready you are to receive one, you must be able to lie and slander without scruples, you must part with your notions of categories such as morality, ethics, honesty... humanity is an unfamiliar word.< /p>
We came into politics to change this environment. And happily, little by little, grain by grain, we succeed. But unfortunately, the speed with which this environment changes us is much greater.
In spite of everything, we have gathered wonderful and completely committed individuals. People who abandon careers and families, risk their health, and sometimes their loved ones, work around the clock to the point of complete exhaustion so that we don't let hope for change disappear.
And with many of them, a cause brought us together only 30 months ago, we became close friends, we became family. And I know that each one of us will continue to work for the benefit of society, whether in the National Assembly, in the Council of Ministers, in the local government or in the spheres where we can be most effective, even in the neighborhood in which we live. Each of us has abducted dozens, each of them as many, and so on. And this gives me hope that the change is now irreversible. Slow, long, difficult, but irreversible.
I will not even try to report on what I have done for these 30 months in active politics, as some colleagues do, because the achievements are the result of a collective vision, collective efforts, of tense days and sleepless nights of whole teams, and not to one person", Rosen Kosturkov wrote on Facebook.
But if I have managed to give people hope for change for the better, if I have managed to help even just 2 villages, 2 families, 2 children... and they are much more, it has been worth it.
P.p.
I never made a "politician" Facebook profile because I never saw myself as one. This is my personal profile. And I will continue to use it as such. If there are people on my friend list or those who only follow me for the political news, commentary and analysis, they may be disappointed in the future. As well as those who follow me just to spit on me for my political affiliation.
Everyone is free to choose whether to continue being my "friend" or to follow me on facebook.