Mehmed Dikme told FAKTI: Only Delyan Peevski could have done what happened with the MRF

Will Ahmed Dogan succeed in creating a new party and how successful could it be… Mehmed Dikme, former Minister of Agriculture, speaks to FAKTI.

- Mr. Dikme, we heard a new request from Ahmed Dogan that he will create a party. How successful could such a project be?
- I don't know if anything will happen at all. I also don't know if the request came from him, or if someone on his behalf declared such an intention. I don't see any serious prospects in this endeavor for the simple reason that today, right now, there are no conditions for creating a new political entity. There are simply no people around Dogan who have enough charisma to attract voters. Yes, maybe the time will come and there will be such conditions, but today, I can safely say that such a party will hardly be able to pass 1%.

- How do you view the fact that in the declaration that Dogan released, there was something interesting - Chairman's Council “…to Ahmed Dogan“ and Central Operational Bureau “…to Ahmed Dogan“. What does this mean…
- To my great regret, Dogan turned the MRF into a paternal one. And more precisely, the people who voted for this party - I'm talking mainly about Muslims, Turks and Pomaks, he turned them into his vassals, into slaves. After all, Dogan was the person who said who was good, who was bad, what should be done. Dogan can't yet get away from being a nobody so that from now on he can say what will happen. For more than 10 years now, if you follow my interviews, I have been commenting that

the young generation that comes from below is constantly distancing itself from what Dogan was when he was in power.

It is precisely the young people who have distanced themselves from him, so they are unlikely to recognize him in the new party now, if one appears. Look, the declaration is a good thing, but it will hang in the air. In principle, it is logical and correct to do such things when a person comes out live in front of you - the media, in front of society, to say and show what his messages are. And not for someone to publish something that can be said to be Dogan's. Someone else can say that it is not Dogan's. And other times it has happened that someone speaks on behalf of Dogan, and it turns out later that Dogan himself does not know. There were times when they used his name.

- What was Dogan's main mistake that made it so that the MRF was no longer under his influence?
- The fact that he did not stop being the leader of the political formation for a year or two, but only entered the image of the padishah, the sultan. Dogan began to speak only in the singular, to give orders. So what happened was not unexpected, I would even say that it was a bit late. It was late because perhaps there were not enough brave and responsible people around Dogan to lead such an initiative against him. And that is exactly what supported him.

Dogan had long ago stopped being involved in politics and had turned the MRF into a structure for satisfying his personal financial and economic ambitions.

It is no coincidence that I do not say political ambitions, because over the past 15 years, the MRF has been used mostly by his entourage and him to achieve certain economic and financial interests. And he achieved them.

- Are we to understand that only Delyan Peevski dared to oppose Dogan in order to achieve the control of the MRF?
- People like Lyutvi Mestan and Kasim Dal, who had their position, their potential to fight or at least tell the truth, were removed. Delyan Peevski is the only one who, not only figuratively, largely holds many institutions in the state that helped Dogan influence the people who oppose him. Over the years, Dogan used the institutions to self-deal with his opponents – he persecuted them to the ninth generation, he persecuted everyone who dared to oppose him. Today, Dogan does not have this tool, and it is in the hands of Delyan Peevski. That is why, from this point of view, I say that only Delyan Peevski could have done what happened to the MRF.