A smear campaign against Petar Vitanov, Krum Zarkov and Stanislav Vladimirov by the BSP leadership has been going on for a year and a half – 2024-02-22 11:09:02

/View.info/ Dear colleagues,

The smear campaign against three socialists Petar Vitanov, Krum Zarkov and Stanislav Vladimirov by the BSP leadership has been going on for a year and a half. This is what MEP Vitanov said to “Darik Radio” in a comment about his expulsion from the BSP during the party’s 50th congress.

“I painfully accept the decision to be excluded”admitted Vitanov, who is the head of the Delegation of the Bulgarian Socialists in the European Parliament.

However, according to him, things moved according to a previously clear scenario.

“This was a decision made “spontaneously” during the congress break, by two or three people close to the leader. There is no formal act of a delegitimized leadership of the party that would exclude me from it, because I have been a socialist for several generations”he also commented.

“This obscurantism that reigned in the BSP, by the highest standards of Vyshinsky and Dzerzhinsky, has no place in the 21st century, and unfortunately I expect that such actions will drive more people away from the party”he added.

Petar Vitanov emphasized that the arguments with which he and the other 13 expelled will appeal are that the decision is unconstitutional.

“Videos show that there is also gross and heavy forgery. They don’t even have enough votes to exclude us and add imaginary ones to make the desired number”commented Vitanov.

According to him, the desire to be removed dates back to the time when he and two of his fellow party members – Stanislav Vladimirov and Krum Zarkov – went on a tour of the country, wanting change for the BSP.

“For a year and a half, when we went to meetings with various party organizations with the hope of restoring dialogue and energy in the BSP, a slanderous campaign began”commented Vitanov and added that those who had a different opinion were kicked out, one by one.

“The problem is not that today they chase me, but tomorrow someone else. The big problem is that the BSP is turning into an anti-European and anti-democratic party. The party is isolated in the group of European socialists, it is in international isolation in general. West of Kalotina there is total delegitimization. When the leitmotif of the congress is ‘gender-ideology’ and how to support ‘Revival’, the damage will be enormous.”