Businessman Rumen Gaitanski, nicknamed Valka, who is currently under investigation arrest, will be nominated as an MP candidate by the coalition around Ahmed Dogan - "Alliance for Rights and Freedoms". in Sliven constituency. This was announced to the BNR by the chairman of the party in Sliven, Vladimir Martinov. The nomination is expected to be made at a district meeting on Monday.
Martinov stated that Gaitanski's promotion was his personal decision:
"So what made me? Simple as that. I'm a lawyer and my sense of justice is so highly developed. And seeing the situation in Bulgaria, this prompted me to nominate Rumen Gaitanski.
The other motive for promoting the candidacy of the detained businessman is that he would also be successful in politics. He is a successful and proven person. Why is it not successful? Against the background of these MPs, the others who are so "successful"".
Vladimir Martynov also commented on the split of the DPS and the reflection on the members and sympathizers of the party in the region:
"People's reaction is very negative. The topic is very sensitive and all these actions that are being done at the moment by the other camp are not accepted at all".
Businessman Rumen Gaitanski is one of the three defendants in the affair with the unsecured loan in the amount of 150 million leva granted in 2019 to a company related to Gaitanski by the Bulgarian Development Bank.