Libertas 'founding member' denies affiliation
Mincho Hristov, a Bulgarian MP who was listed as a member of the Libertas anti-Lisbon campaign group in an application to win pan-European party status, denied the affiliation in an interview with EurActiv yesterday (4 February).Following Estonian 'founding member' of Libertas Igor Grazin's recent decision to deny being a member of Libertas, the anti-Lisbon Treaty pan-European party launched recently, his Bulgarian 'colleague', MP Mincho Hristov, also denied having had any contact with the new political project. Mincho Hristov Kuminev, who describes himself as "anti-establishment", arrived in the Bulgarian parliament in 2005 as a member of the nationalist party Ataka, but left the group soon afterwards. He is now an independent MP, active in exposing corruption. The international press called him "Mincho Kuminev", according to the information provided by Libertas, but in his country he is known as Mincho Hristov.
The controversial Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty platform Libertas is back in the spotlight, following a bizarre 24 hours of speculation, accusations and counter-accusations in the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. Declan Ganley [Libertas leader] has been trying hard to recruit thousands of people to support his cause by scurrying around the 27 EU states. So far he has only found six parliamentarians who he says support him. Liberal EU MEP Andrew Duff said "Libertas will receive no EU funds until this matter is resolved"
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