The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will be a determined opposition to a government that depends on the Patriotic Front, the party's leader Lyutvi Mestan said Tuesday.

Mestan, who chairs Bulgaria's third-largest electoral force, dominated by ethnic Turks, met President Rosen Plevneliev for a round of consultations which the head of state is holding with all parliamentary parties prior to handing GERB a mandate to form a government.

"This arithmetic sum of GERB, the Reformist Bloc [RB], the Patriotic Front [PF] and ABV is not just unprincipled, but is an outright anti-European and anti-NATO concord which cannot be supported by the DPS," Mestan told reporters after his talks with Plevneliev.

In his words, Bulgaria risks "deviating from its civilizational choice of a Euro-Atlanticist state."

He warned against attempts to distinguish between "good" and "bad" nationalists, referring to the PF, a nationalist coalition which is determined to back the GERB-RB minority coalition, and Ataka, the kingmaker within the previous legislature much criticized for silently supporting the then-governing socialist-liberal (BSP-DPS) cabinet.

At the same time Mestan made clear if GERB's leader Boyko Borisov "finds the power within himself" to propose a single-party or two-party government and opts to seek "ad hoc" majorities on certain issues, he would be able to count on "a DPS which... could back policies benefiting national interest".

He also stressed critics should avoid applying "double standards" with regard to the structure of government, having in mind a much-disputed decision of the 2005-2009 three-way coalition to allocate ministerial seats among the three participating entities by quotas, according to their election result.

In his words, nowadays no-one is questioning GERB and the RB's decision to adhere to the same principle.

Mestan pointed out that "in Bulgaria political realities are not evaluated from the point of view of the political action's content, but from [that] of the political subject."

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