site.btaMorality, Unity, Honour Party Proposes Draft Resolution on Gold Concessions

The Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh) Party Wednesday introduced in Parliament a draft resolution obligating the Council of Ministers to renegotiate or terminate the concession agreements for gold and rare metal deposits in Bulgaria, the party's press office said.

MECh leader Radostin Vasilev MP said that Parliament Chair Nataliya Kiselova refused to put this item on the agenda. The question is whether the concessionaires are paying an adequate, or a criminally low, fee; whether the state exercises control over what is extracted from these deposits and leaves the country; and whether there has been an organized criminal scheme for years that has cost Bulgaria billions of leva, he said.

He claimed that the government coalition seems to be more concerned with [the ban on] vapes and the distribution of positions in regulatory bodies.

Vasilev was adamant that the party would not nominate candidates for the regulators or back other nominees. "We will wait for a stable governance in the medium term that will elect new members of those bodies," he said.

Parliament's weekly programme includes the opening of nomination procedures for the replacement of members of regulatory bodies with expired terms. GERB-UDF Deputy Floor Leader Raya Nazarian said 94 people must be elected to more than 18 regulatory bodies.