Bulgaria’s President announced a People’s Movement to keep the Memory of March 3rd

"March 3 is the red line of our patience, the people's movement will not allow March 3 to be erased", said President Rumen Radev in front of the Shipka monument at today's national celebration of the 146th anniversary of the Shipka Epic*.

According to Radev, after the "Epic of the Forgotten"**, those gathered at the summit will not allow the "Epic of the Crossed Out" to be imposed on them.

"Today we say 'no' to the replacement and the scandals through which a project to hijack the Constitution is being pushed. It envisages that Bulgaria will be governed by politicians for whom Bulgarian citizenship is a detail. The people's movement will not allow March 3 to be erased, our national memory to be erased, and Bulgarian statehood to be destroyed," Radev said.

"European Bulgaria has a future only when we put an end to the political indifference that sows schism and is a parasite on the division that trades with everything Bulgarian. We don't need collectivism, but unity around statehood, history and national dignity," declared Radev.

On the murder of Aleksei Petrov and the requested resignation of the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Petar Todorov, Radev commented:

"The maxim that when the state is weak, the mafia is strong is confirmed. Apparently, the cabinet uses every failure of its own as an opportunity to grab more power. This is an offensive against the democratic balances enshrined in the Constitution and laws. Apparently, the Constitution hinders the rulers in their desire for more power. It is obvious to everyone that they suffer from power bulimia".

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