A key figure from the parliamentary group of mavericks that split from the ranks of the former king's party has officially dismissed it as a thing of the past.

"Bulgarian New Democracy differs in many and significant ways from NMPS, which is a closed project," Plamen Panayotov, the lawyer who informally led the dissenters since the party tumultuous congress in the summer, told Darik radio.

According to Panayotov the party of Simeon Saxe-Coburg has lost its characteristics of a rightist-liberal party.

"How can you talk about liberal democracy if your style is made up of nothing but threats?", Panayotov rhetorically asked, referring apparently to the leader Saxe-Coburg.

"We are out of the ruling coalition, we are opposition," Panayotov stressed in response to criticism that the dissenters are giving contradictory indications as to what they are planning to do next.

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