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Socialists Urge Consultative Council on National Security to Discuss Refugee Crisis

Sofia, August 30 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) on
Sunday repeated its earlier call for the Consultative Council on
 National Security under the President to convene in order to
discuss the refugee crisis. The party is concerned about the
trafficking in illegal immigrants, which involves Bulgarian
citizens. There have been many reports by investigative
journalists, and the circumstances of the recent tragedy in
Austria have been confirmed, BSP Spokesman Atanas Merdjanov and
BSP Chairman Mihail Mikov told a news conference after a meeting
 of the party's National Council.

Cases like the one in Austria, in which three Bulgarians have
been arrested for the death of 71 migrants found in a truck by
an Austrian motorway, discredit Bulgaria as a prospective
partner in the Schengen border-free area, Mikov said. "We want
details about the situation, but we do not get answers," he
said. He recalled that National Assembly Speaker Tsetska
Tsacheva has declined to convene an extraordinary meeting of the
 legislature, recommending to BSP to collect signatures in
favour of the initiative instead.

BSP Deputy Chairman Boiko Velikov said women account for 20 per
cent of the BSP candidates for municipality mayors for the
October 25 local elections. Sunday's BSP National Council
meeting approved 139 nominations for the elections, including
mayoral candidates in nine regional capitals, among them Anelia
Klissarova in Varna and Georgi Gergov in Plovdiv.