Nikolai Svinarov and Vanya Tsvetkova announced on November 28, that they would leave the National Movement for Stability and Progress (NDSV).

Svinarov said that their decision to leave was definite. He said he had worked six and a half years with the five member who had been ousted the day before. If they were not part of the party, then who was, Dnevnik daily quoted Svinarov as saying.

It had been a difficult decision, he said.

Svinarov announced he would not leave his post as spokesperson of the commission on domestic security and public order. Instead, he would leave it up to others to remove him, he said.

When asked if those who were leaving NDSV would create a new party,he said that, although they had been accused of this, there had not been any plans so far. He said these were issues for the coming days.

Svinarov refused to give a qualification of NDSV leader Saxe-Coburg, but said the motivation behind ousting the five a day earlier had nothing to do with liberalism.

Tsvetkova said that her reason to leave the NDSV had been that the party was no longer what it had been. NDSV did less useful work and was no longer a team that had public support, she said.

She said that, as far as she was concerned, NDSV was no longer a liberal party and it was not a democratic party, because of the way things happened within the party.

At the congress, decisions had been taken in an undemocratic way, she said, by changing the rules for the parliamentary group in such a way that certain people could be ousted. Tsvetkova said she had voted against the ousting.

NDSV deputy president Milen Velchev said that anyone who was not prepared to work for the party and its leader, was under no obligation to stay as a member of the party.