Movement for Rights and Freedoms
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Template:Politics of Bulgaria The Movement of Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za Prava i Svobodi, DPS) is a centrist political party in Bulgaria, based on the Turkish minority. The DPS is a member of the Liberal International and considers itself a liberal party. It has been chaired by Ahmed Dogan ever since its establishment in 1990.
In the 2001 parliamentary elections, the MRF won around %8.6 of the vote, gaining 21 seats and several ministerial posts. Since then it has been the main supporter of the centre-left government led by former Bulgarian king Simeon II Saxe-Coburg.
At present there are three other Turkish political factions that oppose the MRF’s politics. These groups - which recently united to form the Balkan Democratic League - are the Movement of the Democratic Wing, DDK, led by Osman Oktai; the Party for Democracy and Justice, PDS, led by Nejim Genchev; and the Union of the Bulgarian Turks, SBT, led by Seihan Turkan. The latter claims that it has the support of around 300,000 Turkish Bulgarian citizens in Turkey – twice the number of Turkish voters living in Bulgaria.