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"Mr President, in Bulgaria, we have a saying for what we are witnessing in the current debate: ‘the thief who cries ‘thief!’’. When the tripartite coalition was in power, the services were infiltrated by the mafia, with the toxic results that we now see.
When the coalition was in power, I myself was beaten by the police during an opposition protest. Afterwards, these wolves in sheep’s clothing, who now present themselves to you as fighters against a police state, amended the law by virtue of which the case against my assailants has been pending in the court for three years now. During your rule, socialists and royalists, the police attacked peaceful demonstrators, but now you are stirring up a fuss about infringements of civil liberties.
When you were in power, the journalist Ognyan Stefanov was beaten to death, and now you complain of censorship. While you were in power, kidnappings were a daily occurrence. The mafia was all-powerful, while citizens had no rights. The courts were bought and sold. When you were in power, wheeler-dealing and selling off national assets became models of rule.
Now you are up to your old tricks again, trying to stop Bulgaria joining Schengen in the hope that you can blame the sins of your criminal rule on others. However, it will not work, because the voters are not blind. They swept you from power, threw you on to the political scrapheap, and no iniquity that you may dream up will change this fact."@en1
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