Former Deputy PM Todorov to vote in the upcoming referendum

Nikola Todorov, a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Health in the governments of VMRO-DPMNE, announced that he will vote in the upcoming referendum and is against the boycott.

Todorov, who participates in a debate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs titled “Debate on NATO” explained that he will vote because the leadership of VMRO-DPMNE does not take a position on the referendum, but left the supporters to act on their own conviction.

At the debate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, besides Todorov, the former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy and the national NATO coordinator Stevo Pendarovski are announced as participants.
Todorov was a minister in the offices of Nikola Gruevski for years, first for education and then for health, in order to be named vice-premier in the last year of the rule of VMRO-DPMNE, together with the then foreign minister Nikola Poposki, andwhen the prime minister was Emil Dimitriev.

Dimitriev also told Nezavisen/Independent newspaper that his initial position within the internal party consultations was that he should participate in the referendum on the name, because VMRO-DPMNE first came out with a commitment to a referendum in its programme. However, Dimitriev does not reveal how he will vote in the referendum and whether his stance on voting is definitive, explaining that he has time to make a decision by September 30th.