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Krassimir Yankov and Valeri Zhablyanov (in the foreground) and their colleagues Nikolay Ivanov, Lalo Kirilov, Georgi Andreev and Dimitar Stoyanov (from left to right in the second row) announced that they were leaving the BSP group. PHOTO: THE AUTHOR
The escapades are led by failed candidates for leaders Krassimir Yankov and Valeri Zhablyanov.
Six Red MPs left the BSP parliamentary group on Tuesday.
They are Krassimir Yankov and Valeri Zhablyanov, former mayor of Vratsa Nikolay Ivanov, as well as deputies from the Sofia, Varna and Burgas region: Lalo Kirilov, Georgi Andreev and Dimitar Stoyanov. Five of them also left the party, but Zhablyanov remained in the BSP.
Yankov and Zhablyanov were Cornelia Ninova’s rivals for the leadership position, but received 1,118 and 759 votes, respectively. And after a vote among the delegates to the 50th Congress of the party, both did not enter the National Council. Yesterday they and their four colleagues stood together in the rostrum on the sidelines of parliament to announce their decision.
Thus, the BSP group is left with 72 deputies. At the beginning of the term, they started with 80, but over the years they parted ways with two coalition partners: Spas Panchev from the farmers and Alexander Paunov from the communists. The six escapes remain independent deputies.
I am not going to leave the BSP because it is the leadership that has left the positions of the party’s program with its politics, Zhablyanov said.
The BSP attempt to
be converted
in the authoritarian
structure,
Moving
law,
it is a real threat to democracy, he said. And he accused the group’s leadership of following a “systemically right-wing policy.” According to him, the congress has moved in the direction of a complete ideological replacement of the BSP.
We are ending our membership in the BSP, but we remain socialists, Yankov said. He explained that they will work to maintain a social and solidarity policy and strengthen the space of the left. There were supporters both among the deputies who remain with Ninova for the time being and among ordinary Socialists across the country.
The separatists announced that what Ninova calls reform and modernization of the party, according to them, is “the complete subordination of the BSP to the single government.” According to them, the National Council has not been renewed despite the absence of significant names in it.
“How can we call something renewal that did not separate itself from the rest of the people, so that society does not recognize the BSP as a socialist party,” Yankov asked. And he explained that the supreme body of the BSP was built from two “personal entourages”: Ninova and Kiril Dobrev.
Yankov and his colleagues described Ninova’s first term as “unsuccessful” because the party had shrunk by 30% and had suffered several electoral defeats.
The deep dividing lines with which Ninova crossed the BSP through systematic illustrations and accusations of interaction with GERB from people who do not support his leadership model have arrived.
powerful campaign
to fight the enemy
with a party ticket,
Yankov explained. And the imposition of the image of a leader who works tirelessly for the party, in parallel to the internal scandals, had to present Ninova in the light of a victim of internal conspiracies to remove her from the position entrusted to her by the GERB.
The constant change in the ideological image of the party in Ninova’s definitions as a party of conservative socialism, social pariotism, ecosocialism led to the disidentification of our established ideological framework with which we are present in the political space and determines the parameters of our priorities, he criticizes Yankov.
Zhablyanov explained that the six in parliament will defend leftist and socialist ideas, without giving in to the position that Boyko Borissov’s government is harmful to Bulgaria. We also remain in opposition to Ninova’s systemic populism, destructive and indistinguishable from far-right populism, he said.
Ninova and the leadership of the left-wing group were silent last night about their colleagues’ decision.
“I have been a member of the BSP for 42 years and I do not believe that the party is related only to your position in it. When it is in the heart and soul of a person, it would not do that, ”said Irena Anastasova, who is the secretary of the left-wing group. She did not hide her surprise at the decision of her colleagues, she found out in the taxi on the way to Positano 20.
Both Yankov and Zhablyanov were candidates for leadership and, as such, they should have sufficient strength, will and courage to defend their positions and seek expression within the party. I don’t understand them, Anastasova added.
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