On 19 September 2016, the arbitrage board of DSB voted to remove Moskov from the party due to what they deemed to be his increasingly radical views, his refusal to resign from his position as minister after the party left the ruling coalition and nonpayment of party membership dues. Moskov reacted by accusing them of "returning to 1917" and postulated that his former party might desire to "intern himself and his family" in a prison.