Dogan knows best

Contrary to all logic, just when the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms achieved its starry objective - to enter real power - the scandals of the party surfaced. The deputy chairman and member of the central operative bureau of the MRF, Osman Oktay, resigned last week, unhappy with the behaviour of the coalition partners from the National Movement Simeon II, as well as the MRF chairman, Ahmed Dogan. The possible explanations for Oktay's resignation are at least three:

First, this is the latest episode of a soap opera, which is played by the MRF, in order to get as much as they can from the coalition agreement with the NMSII. In it, Oktay plays the part of a spokesman for Dogan. He was handed over a similar mission each time Dogan wanted to attack the Union of Democratic Forces and Ivan Kostov. And now he has something to be unhappy about - he was hoping very much to control the ministries, which receive money from the pre-accession funds of the EU, but this did not happen. Also Oktay's proposition for forming a council from the leaders of the coalition coincided with Dogan's wish to be warned about the prime minister's decisions in advance.

Secondly, Oktay's discontent could be totally real and due to unsatisfied ambitions, as well as the circle around him. The ex-second of the MRF is already ostentatiously isolated, and the chairman of the party entered power with younger cadres from the movement. This could be a sign of the final release from the movement of the "old foxes," whose informal leaders were Oktay and Yunal Lyutfi.

Thirdly, the possibility that Dogan asked for Oktay's resignation because of his behaviour prior to the June 17 parliamentary elections is not to be underestimated. Back then, the movement's deputy chairman was at the basis of the scandal with the MRF's pre-election ballots and, according to members of the movement, he tried to deceive Dogan and predispose him against Emel Etem and Ramadan Atalay. Now the MRF's leader not only accepted Oktay's resignation, but also explained that his motives were not so interesting. "Mine are more interesting," Dogan said without specifying them.

The only one who knows what is going on in the MRF is Dogan and he does not seem to have a desire to share it.
-Kapital

Customs in a straight jacket

The news that a western board is pending over customs is a good one. The supervisory board of the Bulgarian National Bank was a straight jacket for the elite, which drained the financial system in a pagan and barbarian way. The elite, though, found another tap - the border checkpoints. According to customs head Emil Dimitrov, also nicknamed the Auditor, some one billion leva a year are lost there. Who will slap the thieves on the hands, when the traces from smuggling lead to the political parties? The fraud is starting from the political peaks and the people pay for it.

Isn't it normal then that outside people should come? Moreover, Westerners have an interest in blocking some channels, which pass here and go all the way to them.

It is also normal that the discontent ones - the smugglers, some customs officers and their supervisors from the party headquarters, will be calling down fire and brimstone. One billion a year is a serious income. The affected ones will not give up without a fight.
-24 Chassa

Beware with the prisoners

The prisoners already jumped against their destiny. They were treated as dogs, they were hungry, and the goddess of justice refuses to review their plight. If they had not asked for trouble, they would not have been in this situation as the people would say, who are also not swelling with compassion for those deprived of freedom. Because those who call themselves free are also hardly making two ends meet.

But it is one thing to give the criminals what they deserve for their bravado. It is quite another when the judiciary system is blind to the truth - that even the meanest criminal has human rights.

And the laws of our country - which claims to have a strict legal order - allow anyone's verdict to be reviewed.

Decent justice does not forget that.

Obviously the belief that putting someone in jail in Bulgaria can correct them is not en vogue. It is interesting, though, to know what society expects when people who have been fed with dog food are released.
-Trud