There Is Such a People: "It Is a Disgraceful Day"

UPDATED There Is Such a People: "It Is a Disgraceful Day"

Momchil Rusev

There Is Such a People floor-leader Toshko Yordanov (BTA Photo)

Sofia,

01.09.2023 10:34 | UPDATED 01.09.2023 12:10

(BTA)

In his parliamentary group's declaration for the start of the new parliamentary session, There Is Such a People floor-leader Toshko Yordanov said it was "a disgraceful day" because the National Assembly begins work in the former communist Party House rather than in the "real Parliament building".

"Nobody in this country calls this building the National Assembly, everybody calls it the 'party house' because it is just that - the Communist Party House," he added.

Yordanov argued that the building is once again full of communists, pointing to GERB-UDF, Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria and BSP for Bulgaria. "But I understand you: you are back home."

He said it is a "disgraceful day" also because "a harmful Parliament is back to work", and went on to slam the majority for bills it has adopted, including a bill against domestic violence, which he apparently found inadequate, as well as changes in the Penal Code and "a terrible budget that put the country's financed in the hands of a finance minister who brought the country to the brink of a financial crisis".

He said that the constitutional changes that the majority is determined to push through, are not called for by any real needs but by a political fear.

Yordanov said it is a disgrace that that the government continues to exist and said it is all "GERB's fault" because they have known all along that Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria are "endlessly greedy, immoral, arrogant, incompetent and yet you allow them to plat with the life and future of Bulgarian people".

/MR/