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DPS leader Lyutvi Mestan while inaugurating his party's campaign for the snap vote on October 5 in the village of Cherna, near the northeastern town of Shumen. Photo by BGNES
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will lead a tolerant campaign, its head Lyutvi Mestan announced as the party's campaign kicked off on Sunday.
"The DPS has shown that it can renounce power in the name of values, in the name of what Bulgaria needs today. Bulgaria needs calm, stable governance which could decide the problems of all Bulgarian citizens without discriminating against anyone," the website Dnevnik.bg quoted Mestan as saying.
Mestan added that any attempts to exclude the DPS from the concept of national agreement would constitute an attempt to isolate 500 000 voters as well.
It was the DPS that first called for early elections in June following poor results of the BSP, its senior partner in the previous coalition government, at the May 25 European Parliament Elections.
The liberal party's leader reiterated his calls for a right of the Bulgarian Turkish minority, but also all other minorities, to speak their language while campaigning for the elections, an activity prohibited under Bulgarian law.
He added that if one commits a crime speaking their mother tongue, "then we have a problem with European standards for rights and freedoms".
"It is tolerance where the DPS's power lies," Mestan argued.
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