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Bulgarian Turkish Leader Calls for Return of Democracy Ahead of Vote
[size=150:1grkjyak]Elections 2013
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Turkish Leader Calls for Return of Democracy Ahead of Vote
Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Lyutvi Mestan. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria would either return to democracy or continue sliding into authoritarianism at the general elections on Sunday, according to Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party.
Mestan urged voters not to allow the “authoritarian mentality to completely destroy the democratic system.”
“No one is stronger that the free will of Bulgarian citizens,” the ethnic Turkish leader declared in his last address to voters ahead of Sunday’s vote.
The center-right GERB government of former PM Boyko Borisov resigned amid massive protests against corruption and poverty in February, prompting President Rosen Plevneliev to adjourn the Parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule snap elections for May 12.
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms will surely obtain seats in Parliament after the vote, according to pollster