MP Mario Rangelov is the latest to leave the "Alliance for Rights and Freedoms" (APS) group.
"APS, if it continues like this, will soon not have enough MPs for their parliamentary group to exist. I can advise the leader of the "Movement for Rights and Freedoms" (MPS) Delyan Peevski to be very careful with the people around him. A large part of these people until recently kissed Ahmed Dogan's hand, but they saw that he was weak," commented former Minister of Agriculture Mehmed Dikme on the show "The Day ON AIR."
According to him, Peevski and the MRF enjoy an exceptional credit of trust.
"Dogan did not allow the party to reform and people accept Peevski as a natural leader because he dealt with Dogan," said Dikme. "When Dogan ruled the party, there was money, but the problems were not solved. In the next elections, people will give this credit of trust to the MRF with leader Peevski," added the former Minister of Agriculture. He called on Dogan to "come out of hiding and be a man, take responsibility and make the decisions himself."
"Right now they are in an unpicked vineyard. If they set out to create a new party - there are no conditions, no charismatic personality to head the party, and no energy in the people to support it. It will not gather even 1% of the electorate," Dikme predicted.
According to him, Dogan had unlimited political power, but at one point he took it for granted, believing that everyone should be subordinate to him.
"He took many illegal actions. The removal of Lyutvi Mestan was illegal. The same scheme was tried to be done to Delyan Peevski, but he is stronger than Mestan and did not allow this to happen", emphasized Dikme.
He pointed out that the MRF continues to exist and the leader is Delyan Peevski. According to him, the mayors who are going from Dogan to Peevski show that they remain loyal to the party, no matter who its leader is. Dikme believes that Peevski faces the enormous task of bringing the MRF back through the "grand entrance into the governance of the state".
"A very serious reform is needed in the budgetary sphere - perhaps with a 30% cut in social spending. This is an inevitable fact for the future governance of the country.
There is no way Bulgaria can move forward with the most pensioners and the most social budget spending. The state must spend as much as it manages to collect," explained the former MP. According to him, the left and right have become blurred in Bulgaria, and GERB is not a right-wing political formation. In the next elections, Dikme sees a majority between GERB and MRF.
He believes that without MRF, a president will not be elected - "the first and second can elect a president".
"The presidential institution is extremely important," Dikme emphasized.