Nikolay Markov in front of FACTS: In the country we live in, what you expect and what you get depends on... the sultan

The seventh party that enters the 50th parliament - "Velichie" will work to preserve the Bulgarian lev and to shed light on crimes related to projects related to the "Green Deal". This is what the chairman of the party Nikolay Markov, who will head the parliamentary group, told FAKTI.

- Mr. Markov, what did you expect from the “Greatness“ as a result and what did you get?
- In the country we live in, what you expect and what you get depends on the one who extends the hand - the Sultan. We live in the Ottoman Empire! We know our results because we have a parallel internal count, we have a Viber group, we have an internal poll, people have registered with their names and the number of votes they will vote for us. And 85% of the people who support us vote. Otherwise, how can I say what is already happening in the state… This is another topic, but our actual percentages are between 7 and 10%.

- That means you get over 80,000 votes, because that's what it takes to break the 4% barrier in this vote, which is said to have cast about 2 million…
- If I am not mistaken, at the moment we have about 90,000 votes with a 95% count in the CEC. (NB - the data are as of the evening of June 10).

- And what follows. What will you defend in parliament…
- All that we promised our voters, but above all to shed light on the way the parliament functions. That is, are management decisions made in the Bulgarian parliament? How are they taken? What happens after they are taken? Because, in our opinion, that we live in a constitutional republic – parliamentary, does not mean that it really is. We believe that the parliament is not in its role as the one who produces the decisions and the one who controls their implementation, but rather represents some appendage to other institutions, some of which are even outside the state.

- How sure are you about the people who will become deputies, and how encapsulated your group will be, because we know that the small parties in the parliament are interested in the “big players” and it often leads to a split?
- We have no worries for now, because I don't think that the systemic parties intend to form a government.

- Why?
- Such are the signals they emit. I'm not saying this will happen, but those are the signals. At the moment, a government, which would be realized by the big ones with an annex to them ITN, has to make decisions related to serious commitments on the part of Bulgaria, which they do not want to bear.

- What do you say we go to elections in the fall. Is that so…
- I think so. Such are the signals. It is not up to us. And that's how they put us, that we are supposedly the smallest formation. I don't think it is exactly so, because according to the results from abroad, the party “Majesty” in many places GERD is beating or we are close to GERD. We are the leading party abroad, and at the same time we are cut off from the MEPs, which, somehow, is not correct on the part of the Information Service.

- MEPs are determined based on the percentages the party receives…
- You know that about the percentages in Bulgaria. “Ala-ballata“ you know her or let me remind her.

- Recall…
- Then you remember how “we made a mess with the president, otherwise we would have less than 10%, and now we have 24%”. That's what some people said. This “ala-bala“ since it was there then, we have no illusions that it is not there now.

- If it comes to talks with the major parties, what will your position be?
- Conversations about what?

- For cabinet. You will support policies, you will support certain initiatives, things that are in your agenda…
- I don't think that the big parties need us. We are the seventh political power. Why do parties like DPS and GERB need us, which I can form a government by myself. What are we for them as a seventh party.

- For more security, maybe…
- Or for a brooch, as they did until now. Hristo Ivanov is now resigning and taking responsibility for the consequences of going in &dquo;drinking greasy coffee”. We do not intend to repeat the same mistakes, but to expect different results.

- What policies will you protect. The renegotiation of the “Green Deal” outline it as a priority, but it will be difficult to revise?
- The main emphasis of our activity, perhaps the only one, in the parliament will be that our foreign policy ceases to be a function of the domestic one, while we do not have a stable domestic policy in all its dimensions - mainly in the economy. We cannot act out some foreign policy matters, which are rather to throw dust in the eyes of the people, of the Bulgarian citizens. We cannot be a major player on the international stage and speak louder than anyone, after domestic politics has crashed on all fronts. We believe that we should return the attention of the Parliament to things that concern domestic politics in all dimensions. And then already, when we create the foundations of a healthy state, if it can even come to this with these people at the moment, then we should already make it possible for foreign policy through the function of being able to protect it. Otherwise, we consider the opposite order that now exists in the state to be wrong.

- Will you clarify who the embassy is, if it comes to making important decisions, but under obvious pressure, in the parliament?
- This is our other task - to shed light on the philosophy of what processes take place in the parliament in order to reach certain management decisions. If we do not restore the role of parliament as the manager and controller of all decisions concerning the state as a parliamentary republic, we are doing nothing. So far, no party has set such goals. We believe that Parliament should get out of its role as a rubber stamp for the executive. And this should happen in real politics.

- And how do you view President Rumen Radev's words about the “inevitable“…
- Here I will speak in two directions. Assuming that the “inevitable“ are the words of Ursula von der Leyen that Europe must prepare for war, if that is what we mean, we are people who clearly stand on the thesis that Bulgaria has no opportunities to participate, no capabilities - both from the military and technical side, and on the economic side, for such a thing. If we objectify them and the National Assembly says that we have these abilities, it means that every citizen must be convinced that this is so. If we cannot objectify them, the systemic parties must say why they behave in this way.

- And to add more precisely to the question that Rumen Radev had in mind that a new political player will appear on the field of politics and this is “inevitable“…
- And the other direction, because that was his hint. This could happen in two and a half years. After two years – the camel, the camel driver. You know that in two and a half years, Bulgaria may not exist at all. So our priorities right now have to do with people's lives, with inflation eating away at wages, with people being the working poor, with our mothers and fathers dying because they can't afford medicine, because pensions are degrading, because hidden inflation is in the double digits, although the authority claims otherwise – that it is 3.5%. We want to restore the self-confidence of the Bulgarian citizens by including their agenda in the work of the National Assembly.