site.btaBSP - United Left, CC-DB Discuss Proposals for Legislative Programme in 51st National Assembly
BSP - United Left and Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Wednesday discussed proposals for a legislative programme that the 51st National Assembly can implement.
During the meeting, BSP raised issues related to the postponement of the liberalization of the electricity market for household consumers, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the preservation of the Maritsa Iztok energy complex, the construction of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, the taxation of excess profits of banks, the budget revenues from concessions, as well as the guarantee of social benefits for Bulgarian citizens in the 2025 state budget. The creation of a Judicial Reform Council with magistrates and the adoption of anti-monopoly and anti-cartel legislation were proposed. Maya Manolova (BSP-United Left) said that there is no Bulgarian citizen who can afford to pay a five-fold higher electricity price, which would happen in case electricity liberalization takes place.
At the beginning of the meeting, Assen Vassilev (CC-DB) presented the priorities in the legislation proposed in the declaration for a "cordon sanitaire" around MRF - New Beginning. Among these, he referred to terminating the election of a new Prosecutor General by a Supreme Administrative Council with an expired mandate, fighting corruption and money laundering, ensuring that persons sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act cannot dispose of public state property, adopting the anti-corruption reforms proposed in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, providing for a Personal Bankruptcy Act, rules for the election of the head of the anti-corruption Commission, and a change in the Act on Complainants. Vassilev noted that, at the insistence of There Is Such a People (TISP), the legislation also included a change to the Election Code to eliminate the so-called tombstone voting, and the adoption of the 2025 State Budget Act to ensure policies to raise incomes.
At the start of the meeting, Atanas Zafirov (BSP) commented that the meeting marks the beginning of confidence restoration in Bulgarian Parliament. He pointed out that earlier in the day, BSP had sent the CC-DB their proposals for legislation and the former were expecting concrete answers from them, as they had conceptual differences with CC-DB on some of them. He said that the ultimate goal was to restore statehood and citizens' trust in the institutions.
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