They're at it again!

There is a tradition in the European Union that if at first your scheme fails miserably and makes you look stupid, the best plan is to try exactly the same thing again. You might recall from way back earlier today that Igor Grazin, assisted by British Lib Dem MEP Andrew Duff, tried to claim that he had not signed the Libertas application to be recognised as a pan-European political party, after immense pressure was applied to him by his Liberal group. It didn't take long for this unusual claim to be disproved via the publication of a photo of the document that he really did sign.

It takes a special kind of thinking to attempt a stunt like this. Presumably Andrew Duff, an MEP for the Eastern region of the UK, was trying to claim that Libertas had put Igor Grazin's name on the form, forged his signature and then hoped that no one would notice. Sounds ridiculous doesn't it?

Not quite as ridiculous as trying the same stunt again. EU traditionalist MP, Mincho Kuminev from Bulgaria, another signatory on the application, today claimed that he hasn't signed it either:

 

Bulgarian MP Mincho Kuminev, who is one of seven signatories to Libertas’s application to the European Parliament for some €200,000 in funds, said he never signed an application for Libertas to receive funds and was surprised his name was on the list of Libertas supporters.

“I have no intention of leaving the Bulgarian party system to join a foreign party. My only contact with Libertas was when I met Jens Peter Bonde at a conference in Bulgaria . . . I never signed any application or document in relation to Libertas,”

Perhaps what adds even more of a comedy value to this nonsense is that the story appeared after Libertas had already published a photo of the document showing his signature on it....

[UPDATE]

It appears that Mr Hristov even gave an interview, and is pushing this charade so far that he claimed: 

"if somebody has falsified my signature, I will ask for an inquiry. The whole thing is a lie."

Judging by the photo of the documentation someone must have forged his passport as well. We look forward to the investigation.

[UPDATE 2]

It now looks like the EU is going to investigate, and if these two politicians (both of whom provided their passports to Libertas!) have in fact just suffered from SWA (Spontaneous Willful Amnesia, common amongst politicians placed in stressful positions), they will grant the application anyway.