Kiril Petkov's resignation did not sound convincing, perhaps the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission Anton Slavchev told him something else at the meeting on the sidewalk!
This was what lawyer Metodi Lalov, a former municipal councilor from "Yes, Bulgaria" told the Bulgarian National Radio in the Sofia Municipal Council, former chairman of the Sofia District Court, who resigned from both posts, in a comment on the scandal in "We continue the change", which led to the resignation of co-chair Kiril Petkov.
"His arguments were not convincing. The problem is not who elected whom, but what we hear. Petkov sounded as if someone had sent him there and told him to resign, to act like a fighter one last time and to run to avoid the scaffold".
According to him, the mayor of Sofia Vasil Terziev cannot come out of the whole story unscathed:
"He would have had a strong team, but he has not been able to fill the positions of deputy mayors until now. You enter such a terrain with real experts and fighters. Fighting Borisov and Peevski with amateurs and careerists, whose obvious goal is to take as much as they can - sometimes 6%, sometimes 20%, sometimes 40% - will not work. It's all in the nomination procedures.
He emphasized that leaders do not determine the policy of a party, they are the spokespeople, and policy is determined by the party's bodies - the Executive Council, the National Council, conferences:
"If you do not arrange the political party according to a democratic and accountable model, you cannot democratically and accountablely govern the state, because the party will be broken".
A cashback of 6% cannot be officially spent, this means demoralization and the creation of compromising evidence and dependencies, believes Metodi Lalov:
"Be principled and consistent - ask for money from business and citizens, they will donate it officially for the same purposes, it is known what it will be spent on. ... There is no way they can record you in such a conversation and catch you for a tax crime, if you did not say inappropriate things in such a conversation and if you did not commit a tax crime. ... When there are no rules and procedures for nominations, it will lead to an even more aggravation of the processes in the PP-DB, because when the percentages fall, the elective seats decrease and the fight for ours and yours intensifies even more. This is starting to become apparent - the focus is shifting and it is not about state matters, but about survival".
According to Lalov "there is a chance for society - to learn lessons from all these problematic cases and to want change that can radiate from its bowels".