The European People's Party (EPP) will gather May 15 to decide whether to suspend Bulgaria's Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) from their ranks.
UDF's leader Petar Stoyanov announced Sunday for the state radio when the party's EU fate would be decided, adding that the forthcoming MEP elections in Bulgaria are in a way a confidence or non-confidence vote on the government.
Some circles in Bulgaria tell us quite deliberately that these elections would mean nothing to us as nothing is decided in Brussels, but that's not true, Stoyanov said. In fact it is completely the opposite, now that Bulgaria is in the EU, many things are decided in Brussels, he added.
The way Bulgarians vote would show whether they are happy with the government or not, and this is why some are leading the campaign "Well, the elections are not important," the rightist leader said. He explained that this type of campaigning never influenced the voters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party or Ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, but it confused the rightist voters.