If failure to follow the party/group line during an important vote is grounds for exclusion, I think we should have thinned the ranks a long time ago. This is what he wrote on "Facebook" the MEP from PP-DB Nikola Minchev.
"What exactly did Boyko Rashkov call us on TV and where else on all kinds of occasions. Were the votes in which it was upside down key - Speaker of the National Assembly, Government, Constitution. For KRB submitted amendment proposals between the first and second readings, which were 180° from our vision - in the part about the quota distribution in the personnel body, the core of the changes in the judiciary. During the cabinet “Denkov“ said that the state is run by an organized political group (read, OPG). And other colleagues did not want stains on their shirt because of some votes and nothing came of it.
Well, if the principle is that you have no right to split in an important vote, we are using it for the first time. But if the principle is that you have the right to a free vote, there cannot be conditionalities like “but only if it does not change the result”. Then it is not a free vote."
It is good to apply the principles on a principled basis, otherwise it is not very principled.