“Radev Hands Mandate with Warning of Discreditation and Scandal”

• Radev gave the mandate with a warning that he was already discredited and it was better for Denkov to resign himself
• Only the National Assembly decides what government to elect, the academician replied
• But if they are so worried about the scandal, they should try for the third term, the PP candidate-prime minister called on the others

The ice age that “We continue the change” entered with everyone – after GERB and with the president and with the prosecutor’s office, turned their eyes to the third folder on the day the president handed over the second one.

Rumen Radev handed it into the hands of academician Denkov with apparent reluctance and with an unprecedented recommendation “to completely rethink the expediency of its utilization” because “it is already discredited”. (See below in the text.)

Minutes later there was a message from the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office that

DANS was assigned an investigation “due to possible crimes against the republic”

because of the recording of the PP meeting, released by Radostin Vasilev. It is based on a report by “Vazrazhdane” and VMRO, in which it is claimed that crimes were committed under Articles 103 and 105 of the Criminal Code, the second article being espionage.

Which became the culmination of the avalanche effect of the words spoken by the leaders of “Change” on that Sunday night a week ago. Because of them, on Saturday GERB announced a freeze on the negotiations for the “Denkov-Gabriel” cabinet.

Thus, the academician’s folder, submitted with an icy tone by Rumen Radev, actually referred not to the second, but directly to the third mandate.

If the events of the last few days worry the rest of the parliamentary forces and decide not to participate in the attempt for a cabinet during the mandate of PP-DB, to try with the third mandate, Nikolay Denkov himself called upon leaving the presidency on Monday.

Only

day continued the hope of unfreezing the negotiations with GERB

for the rotary cabinet. Maria Gabriel stopped them after everyone found out how in “Promyanata” they are talking about her and Boyko Borisov, and that they intend to purge officials, whether legally or not. But she and Denkov got in touch on Sunday and hopes returned.

Until Monday, however, when a high-ranking source from GERB described the situation before “24 Hours” as an “ice age”.

Academician Denkov himself admitted that he and the former European Commissioner did not speak on Monday.

According to our source

the repeated, already deep freeze is because of another blunder by the “Change” with foreign ambassadors

A few of them, who discreetly probed where the political crisis in our country is going after the recording scandal, were reassured by the PP that the thaw has occurred and there will be a Denkov/Gabriel government.

It was even explained to the diplomats that Maria Gabriel would go together with Nikolay Denkov to the president to jointly receive the mandate to form a government.

However, the diplomats decided to check the information through GERB as well. And the “information” that everything was fine and the two candidate prime ministers were going to Radev together blew up Boyko Borisov’s party.

The interview of PP co-chairman Asen Vassilev with Nova TV on Sunday evening contributed additionally. While at the same time on another national broadcast – on bTV, Nikolay Denkov tried to calm the situation, Vassilev insisted that he stood behind every word he said on the record and that a regular cabinet would clean up the administration and special services.

There should be no concessions to unfreeze the negotiations, Vassilev insisted. And so he cut off the requests from GERB (for which the partners of “Change” from DB are also calling) – that the politicians on the list for ministers be replaced by experts.

As expected, on Monday Denkov entered “Dondukov” 2 accompanied only by PP-DB personnel. His nomination for prime minister was presented to the president by the group’s co-chairman Atanas Atanasov.

After expressing his personal respect for Academician Denkov and full understanding of the delicacy of his situation, Radev sharply attacked the “Change”:

As president and commander-in-chief, I am directly involved in national security and called to defend the Bulgarian state. And here I want to state that precisely because of this from my side

it is not appropriate to hand you a mandate after the expired records

and to entrust the fate of Bulgaria in the hands of your leaders after the leaked records and public confessions. Because of the torpedoing of Bulgarian sovereignty, the slander and the planned purge in the services and state administration, the request for interference in the elections by controlling the Ministry of Internal Affairs and discrediting the leaders of European institutions and the name of Bulgaria.

But I am called to defend the constitution and by virtue of it I am obliged to deliver this exploratory mandate. Its utilization is your constitutional right, but in the name of preserving the remnants of normality and trust in the political system and of preserving your dignity and political perspective and of preserving the image of Bulgaria in front of our European partners, I urge you to completely reconsider the expediency of this mandate , which I think has already been discredited.

Bulgaria needs a stable government and a stable parliament, Denkov replied. He explained to Radev that negotiations would be held with the other parliamentary forces. Remind him that he keeps his word and is used to being difficult.

In front of the head of state, Denkov did not react to his unprecedentedly harsh words, but on leaving the presidency he commented in his turn in an icy tone: I do not think that the constitution suggests that someone else should give advice to the National Assembly whether to elect a government or not.