BSP and MRF are still close allies

National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) was looking for a shift in the distribution of power within the government, but the ruling tripartite coalition was unlikely to split, sociologist Antoni Gulubov said.

This week a number of NMSII members demanded withdrawal from the ruling coalition once Bulgaria became EU member state, mediapool.bg reported.

On July 4 Ivelin Nikolov from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) said that such demands showed NMSII lacked the will to work on Bulgaria's EU entry.

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) member Liutvi Mestan said that coalition partners should share both dividends and negatives of their policy. BSP, MRF and NMSII joined a coalition after the parliamentary elections as BSP lacked majority to form a Cabinet on its own.

Analysts said that the problems within the ruling coalition could be mentioned in the final European Commission report on Bulgaria’s readiness to join the EU.

Gulubov said that to differentiate itself from coalition partners, NMSII was going to nominate a presidential candidate on its own for the upcoming presidential elections.

NMSII would most likely seek to increase its power at the expense of the MRF, Gulubov said.

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