site.btaPolitical Forces Representatives Meet Protesting Taxi Drivers

Representatives of various parliamentary political formations came out to the protesting taxi drivers who are expressing their discontent in the center of Sofia against  the spikes in the price of the compulsory insurance. 

The first to meet the protesters were MRF - New Beginning MPs Halil Letifov and Bayram Bayram. They pointed out that the formation is committed to the problems of the industry and will make efforts to solve them. The protesters urged Letifov, as a former head of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport and Communications in the previous parliament, to find a quick solution to the problem. 

After that, Continue the Change co-leaders Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev also spoke to the protesters. According to Petkov, the simultaneous increase in the price of insurance looks like a "cartel agreement". The CC MPs  recalled that the leadership of the Financial Supervision Commission, in the person of Julia Nenkova, has an expired mandate. They also stressed that she is the mother of GERB-USD MP Aleksander Nenkov. 

BSP - United Left representatives also talked to the protesting taxi drivers. MPs Maya Manolova and Manol Genov expressed their commitment to the demands of the protesters. 

Some of the protesters cheered the MPs, while others expressed their discontent. 

On Wednesday taxi drivers in Sofia organized a protest procession. Chairman of the national taxi trade union Krasimir Tsvetkov told BTA that the cabs passed by the buildings of the Commission for Consumer Protection, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Association of Insurers, the Commission on Protection of Competition, the Prosecutor's Office, the National Assembly and the Council of Ministers, and ended in front of the building of the Financial Supervision Commission, which said in a statement later in the day that it is investigating a possible cartel pricing in an increase of the price of motor third-party liability insurance for taxi drivers.