Central Council of MRF elected new leadership of the party.

The new Vice-Chairmen of the MRF are:

- Lutvi Mestan;

- Hristo Bisserov;

- Rushen Riza;

- Filiz Hyusmenova;

- Aliosman Imamov.

Dear delegates to the 7^th National Conference of MRF,

Dear guests from the country and abroad,

Your Excellencies,

From a political point of view this report is quite specific. The subject of reporting is not a three or four year period, as is the traditional practice, but eight years of activity. Because the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) participated in the governance of the country in two consecutive mandates.

In addition to this formal reason for a more detailed analysis of the last decade, there is yet another temporal framework which presupposes such an approach. Twenty years from the transition to democracy and a market economy have passed and 20 years from the establishment of the MRF.

MRF will have its seventh National conference on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of its foundation on 12 December at 12 o’clock in 3rd hall of The National Palace of Culture.

 All leaders of international liberal organizations in which MRF is full member sent their greetings to the delegates and the guests. The president of liberal international Hans Van Baalen congratulated MRF on its active participation in the international liberal family.

In her message Annemie Neyts, the Chairman of the liberal democratic and reformist party (ELDR) focused on the participation of the party in two consecutive governmental mandates which in a very successful way prepared and realized Bulgaria’s admission in the European Union.

At the meeting that took place on the 5th of December in hotel “Dedeman Princess”, the delegates elected their new leadership. The Central operativel council (COC)  consists of Chairman of Youth of MRF  and a group of 13 members.  

In October 2009, Dzhevdet Chakarov - MRF was elected vice-president of  Liberal International. Liberal International (LI) is the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic political parties. LI was founded in 1947 to strengthen liberal protection from totalitarianism, facism and communism. It has since become the pre-eminent network for promoting liberalism, individual freedom, human rights, the rule of law, tolerance, equality of opportunity, social justice, free trade and a market economy.

MEPs FILIZ HYUSMENOVA AND PROF. VLADKO PANAIOTOV - ALDE, MRF, DIRECTED A QUESTION OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO STAVROS DIMAS, EUROCOMISSIONER FOR THE  ENVIRONMENT, ABOUT WHETHER AND HOW THE HEALTH PROTECTION OF THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS IS CONTROLLED. THEY ALSO ASK ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE CIANIDE INSTALLATION FOR EXTRACTION OF GOLD WILL BE PERMITTED TO BE BUILT IN THE CENTER OF KARDJALI (BULGARIA), DESPITE THE PROTESTS OF ALL PEOPLE.

Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader in the European Parliament, commenting from Brussels on the outcome of the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty said:

"Today is a beautiful day for Europe. With the Irish YES, all the citizens of Europe, directly or indirectly, said YES to the Lisbon Treaty. Today is the first day of a new future for Europe, united, democratic, effective and strong. "

Filiz Hyusmenova:

- Vice-Chairman - Committee on Regional Development;

- Substitute -  Committee on Employment and Social Affairs;

AHMED DEMIR DOGAN	Chairperson of Parliamentary Group
LYUTVI AHMED MESTAN	Deputy Chairperson of Parliamentary Group
YUNAL SAID LYUTFI	Deputy Chairperson of Parliamentary Group
KAMEN KOSTOV KOSTADINOV	Deputy Chairperson of Parliamentary Group
REMZI DURMUSH OSMAN	Deputy Chairperson of Parliamentary Group
YORDAN KIRILOV TSONEV	Deputy Chairperson of Parliamentary Group

Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly Younal Loutfi was elected Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe / PACE. This happened at the opening of first part of the session of PACE in 2009 in Strasbourg on 26 January 2009. Younal Loutfi was voted for four years. He is a member of the Bulgarian delegation in the organization since 1991 and is its leader since 2001. Younal Loutfi was vice president of PACE in 2003.

On Thursday in Strasbourg Prof. Vladko Panayotov - MEP - ALDE, MRF met and discussed with his British colleague Geoffrey Van Orden before lunch eventual opening of III and IV reactor at Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.

"I left unanswered the most important question: when will be restored gas supplies to Bulgaria", Bulgarian European Parliament asked Prof. Vladko Panayotov - ALDE, MRF, hour and a half after the beginning of extended extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Policy in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Ramadan Atalay, Focus news

Focus: Mr. Atalay, What compensations can Bulgargas demand for the damages that were done as a result from the suspension of gas supply to Bulgaria?

Ramadan Atalay: In this situation we are left with no choice but to try and do something as quickly as possible in order for the gas supply to start functioning the way it did before the crisis.

I got acquainted with the reasons of the European Commission (EC) to suspend the accreditation of the two agencies. My initial negative reaction is now being supported by reasonable arguments. In July the reason for the suspension of the resources was that Bulgarian administrative capacity was weak and there were also suspicions of abuse and conflicts of interests in the distribution of money. EC even claimed that there were no real results from the fight with corruption. The argument for the non-renewal of the accreditation of the two agencies is the lack of results in these areas.

Valerya VELEVA - Trud

350 incompetent officials busted us before Brussels. We did not understand the EC language

- The sixth no-confidence vote against the Cabinet was rejected. In return, political temperatures in the country are rising – the opposition is rallying to initiate nation-wide efforts, street protests have already started. Will the coalition hold up to the pressure, Mr. Dogan?
- Yes, the sixth no-confidence vote in a row failed, but this doesn’t mean that as a ruling coalition we should have time out. In the next 4 or 5 months the government will be facing hard times. And for the first time all through this mandate, I don’t feel calm and often I am quite concerned. The reasons are deep-rooted. First, this vote was provoked by the EU report for Bulgaria. For the first time we have a screening assessment from the European Commission. And it is severe. Regardless of the varied interpretations of the EU report, one thing is true – it shows the extremely critical attitude of the EC to our performance as regards observing regulations and procedures, criteria and formats in the decision-making process. I anticipated even harsher assessments, directives and recommendations. And that’s not only because Europe is now in an auto-corrective mode, searching for the efficient module which could produce security in the management of financial resources and efficiency of investment flows. That’s also because we have made enough mistakes considered by the EC as false moves thus giving grounds for resonance of the negative energy in EU with regard to sanctioning actions. Second, what we have demonstrated to the EC officials is the absence of such sanctioning actions combined with alternatives for auto-corrective measures and self-control. We still don’t understand that “corrective action” in their language means change in the structure, in the team; it means to redefine the functions of a given body or organization and find a new work regime so as to optimize the overall process in the absorption of allocated funds.

MRF and the National Movement for Stability and Progress are the two Bulgarian parties in the Liberal family. Are you satisfied with their work?

Except Filiz Hyusmenova who has led the MRF Delegation in ALDE from the moment Bulgarian Observers joined the European Parliament in September 2005, all our Bulgarian Members are newcomers to the House. Their arrival half way through the mandate put them at a disadvantage with parliamentarians from the other Member States and they had to hit the floor running to make up for lost time. Looking at their legislative work I can see that they do not fall behind the rest of our Group. On the contrary, next to the everyday workload they actively promote EU policies in their constituencies and organise various events here in Brussels. Filiz and other Members of the Group have offered them guidance and support they are now professionally contributing to all aspects of our work.

Having accepted art.3 of the Project Law for electing Bulgarian representatives in the European parliament, proposed and submitted in the 39^th National Assembley in 2005 by the Council of Ministers with ex prime-minister Simeon Saxe Coburg Gotha, the 40^th National Assembley of European Bulgaria didn’t show european attitude but rather straightforward one of discrimination to its citizens.

The adopted text is a gross infringement of art. 26 and art. 42 from the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria and art.17 from the Treaty on European Union, read as follows: