site.btaUPDATED BSP: "The Ruling Majority Has Shown Government Disability and Legislating Incompetence"
Addressing Parliament on the opening of its autumn session Friday, Socialist leader Korneliya Ninova said the ruling majority has shown government disability and legislating incompetence. She said the State is not merely in stagnation, but is moving back and is at risk.
She read a long catalogue of bills which she said now need to be revised soon after being adopted. She said legal incompetence causes chaos in people's lives.
She went back to the formation of the government and said she was not surprised to hear from GERB leader Boyko Borissov that the late Alexey Petrov, a controversial businessman, was involved in putting together this government. "This government is a government of the backstage dealers and personal interests," she said. "Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria, GERB and Alexey Petrov formed this government," she added.
Ninova said, turning to the ruling majority: "You boast about a judicial reform but what is the result of it? The closed cases against Boyko Borissov - Barcelonagate [for money laundering] and Nightstandgate [over the leaked photos of the Prime Minister's bedroom with a nightstand full of EUR 500 notes and gold ingots]. The only result of the judicial reform is laundering Boyko Borissov. Congratulations to my colleagues from Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria! You managed perfectly with the first item on your plan: you laundered him well! Now go for the second item you are talked about: to take full control of the state, to control the institutions."
Regarding the change in the Constitution, Ninova urged against abolishing the caretaker cabinet. "The change in the Constitution is a priority of the ruling majority, but what is it aimed at - changing the national holiday, allowing dual citizenship of Bulgarian politicians, control of the prosecutorial quota in the Supreme Judicial Council and encroachment on the caretaker cabinet," said she.
She looked at the government's work, sector by sector. In the energy sector, Ninova noted that a contract with Botash, which she described as harmful for Bulgaria, is still in effect and the people who signed it were in charge of the energy sector. She said that the concession for the Rosenets oil port terminal was terminated by the Cabinet "without any thought and analysis of what the consequences will be for the Bulgarian people and the Bulgarian economy". She said that tensions continue over the Green Deal in both the Maritsa East and Bobov Dol mines, and warned of dire consequences of the liberalization of energy prices for household consumers.
She said that the government wants to buy 1.3 million vaccines against smallpox, and that this money could have gone "into actual health care".
She lashed out at plans for changes in school books and mentioned changes regarding the study of the Bulgarian language (which the Education Ministry has denied).
Ninova expects that the beginning political season will be dominated by the local elections on October 29.
She said that among the Socialists' priorities in Parliament are the country's accession to Schengen, the state budget and the laws called for by the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
"The topmost political task for BSP for Bulgaria is to fight the backstage deals, the deep state and the corruption model which ruled for 12 years under Boyko Borisov, and now under Borissov with the added decoration of Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria," said Kornelia Ninova.
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