Two protests in support of Maritsa East mines will take place in Stara Zagora on Monday.
The first is scheduled for 10 am in front of the Stara Zagora Town Hall, Podkrepa leader Bisen Binev told BTA.
He specified that the protest is scheduled ahead of the third debate on the future of the Maritsa East complex with the participation of members of Podkrepa and the Confederation of Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).
On Thursday at BTA’s press club in Stara Zagora the trade unions criticized sharply the draft territorial plan. They presented a statement, sent out to President Rumen Radev, Parliament Speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, Energy Minster Rumen Radev, Regional Development Minister Andrey Tsekov, the parliamentary energy committee, and the leaders of the two largest trade unions Podkrepa and CITUB.
In the statement they disagree with the closure of coal facilities by 2026, envisaged in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. They urge the government to begin negotiations promptly with the European Commission for the acquisition of capacity mechanism and delay the submission of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the territorial plans for just transition of coal regions until the first draft is reworked and coordinated. The trade unions gave until September 15 for answers to their demands.
The second protest is scheduled for 6 pm outside the Stara Zagora Town Hall, For Maritsa East Association chair Deyan Dyakov told a BTA-hosted news briefing. He calls for concrete steps and measures in the territorial plan and talks with investors so that one day in order to guarantee the jobs of Maritsa East workers one day.
This is the second protest by the Association in the past month. The first took place on July 31.
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