Lustration Law, to open the file archive and to criminalize the appearance of files that are not in it. This is what the PP-DB candidate for mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, asked the deputies. This is how he answered about his family’s ties to the communist DS, for which his grandfather, brother, father and uncle worked.
I want to apologize. To give a beginning as a descendant of people who were of these structures. It is necessary to realize and do. You
you have to understand history, accept it and move on,
he told bTV.
With a story about his grandparents, Raina and Kiril, who were in communist concentration camps, PP co-chairman Kiril Petkov tried to defend the mayoral candidate Vasil Terziev. Instead, however, a new attack ignited on Sunday.
Most people know that my grandmother Raina Petkova and my grandfather Kiril Petkov were in camps during the communist regime. What’s more – my grandmother is the only person who refused to be an employee of State Security from ISUL, where she was an operating nurse, despite the risk of going to prison. One of the actions of which he was most proud until the end of his life, wrote the co-chairman of “Change” Kiril Petkov. He specified that he cannot attribute her courage to himself, because “everyone must define themselves through their actions.”
As a grandson of people who were in a camp, I stand behind Vasil Terziev, because his successes are due only to his actions, because the courage to jump into this dirty battle, despite his current good life, is enviable. I believe that he has the qualities to turn Sofia into a really nice city for people, Petkov also wrote.
Hours later, GERB deputy Delyan Dobrev asked for proof of his claims – to publish the three names and birth dates of his grandparents to dispel doubts that they were lying in Belene.
The BOEC association also joined the attack. And it strengthened the fears in Terziev’s team that these connections could turn away some of the anti-communist voters in Sofia. Like
an attempt to attract left-wing voters in a runoff,
the former municipal councilor and candidate for mayor of the capital in 2015, Vili Lilkov, who is also one of the founders of DSB, read the elevation of Vasil Terziev. A big compromise was made in the circles of the PP-DB with the promotion of the candidacy of Vasil Terziev. It is probably also aimed at the possibility, if it comes to a second round, of asking for the support of the BSP, since such a candidate would be welcomed lightly among them. Right-wing voters, and especially anti-communists, will be faced with a rather serious dilemma. The problem was to overcome the ambitions of “Save Sofia” and to find a suitable format under which to enter this coalition of PP and DB, he told BNR.
At the end of the week, right-wing Internet groups increasingly recalled the categorical position of the current co-chairman of the DB, Gen. Atanas Atanasov since 2011. Then the leader of the DSB publicly asked Yordanka Fandakova to give up her intention to make Doncho Barbalov deputy mayor, because his father led the wiretapping service during the communist regime.
2023-07-02 20:00:00
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