The "Let's continue clean" campaign of the United Democratic Forces (UtDF) coalition, which requested the withdrawal of former secret services agents from the elections, triggered a dramatic sequence of events within the National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) last week.

Ventsislav Dimitrov, former MP from the Union of the Democratic Forces (UDF) and, more recently, a former MP candidate of the National Movement Simeon II, fell victim to the cleansing campaign, which was initiated on June 2.

Last Friday, it came out that Dimitrov had been removed from the movement's list in Razgrad, where he was placed first. The removal was conducted in a mysterious manner - a fax was sent to the Regional Election Commission (REC), with a list of former secret services agents, including Dimitrov's name. Dimitrov said on Sunday that the fax was falsified - his name was added after the others on the list. He declared that he had never co-operated with the secret services and his reputation had been tarnished without evidence. He also said he would challenge the decision of the REC-Razgrad before the Central Election Commission, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the International Court in Strasbourg, if necessary.

Dimitrov said that the mysterious fax was sent to the REC by Todor Peikov, the leader of the Movement for National Revival Oborishte, one of the coalition partners in the National Movement Simeon II. Dimitrov added he had warned Saxe-Coburg that Peikov was creating political police within the movement.

Saxe-Coburg's movement declared on Saturday that they had requested a cancellation of the 16 MP candidatures of the former secret services agents within their formation. They said they had done so with difficulty as the people who had been lost were people of value, but this was a part of the new political morals Saxe-Coburg had called for.

According to Dimitrov's wife Meglena, Stoyan Ganev, (the UDF Foreign Minister from 1991 to 1993) had staged the affair. She became a media celebrity over the weekend, telling of a conspiracy theory, in which Ganev intentionally prevented the fixing of the mistakes in NMSII's registration documents, so that it would be refused registration. He expected to provoke a revolution, making people the victims of gigantic manipulation. According to Dimitrova, Ganev had selected the people on the movement's MP candidates lists, and these included people with shady backgrounds as well as promiscuous females.

In an open letter on Tuesday, the UtDF asked Saxe-Coburg, who on April 6 announced the founding of his movement for new morals in politics, new economic decisions, new ideas and new leaders, to state who would guarantee the morals and behaviors of the MP candidates of his movement.

According to the UtDF, on the movement's lists were people connected to SIC and VIS insurance companies, Multigroup, the gambling and illegal arms industry, the credit millionaires, and those endangering the national security of Bulgaria.

The UtDF also demanded the former monarch declare whether he was aware of the plan for a pre-election destabilization of the Bulgarian institutions, and the revolution which would follow, through an intentional failure of his party's registration. They also asked if he expected the elections to be fixed.