At the expanded Regional Council held in Veliko Tarnovo, the ten municipal structures of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) from the region joined "MRF - New Beginning". The regional chairman of the MRF in Veliko Tarnovo, Gunay Daloolu, one of the ten regional leaders expelled, according to the decision of the honorary chairman Ahmed Dogan, commented that the movement there is alive, united and purposeful, despite the rifts in the upper levels of the party". 

In Veliko Tarnovo region the MRF party has about 4,300 members, and the decision was taken by 27 of the 33 members of the party's District Council.

However, the chairman of the regional youth organization Saner Uzunali and the deputy regional governor Maston Mastonov remain supporters of Dogan.