site.btaRequested Immunities of MPs Should Be Lifted: Deputy PM Zafirov

This issue should be resolved, the immunities should be lifted, and the investigating authorities should do their job, Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov said on bTV. He commented on the requests of the acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov to give permission for criminal prosecution against MPs Mario Rangelov and Dzheyhan Ibryamov from the DRF group, as well as Slavcho Krumov, Ivaylo Tchorbov, Yordan Todorov, and Nikola Dimitrov from the Vazrazhdane group. 

“We do not have a party decision on how the BSP will vote on this issue, we will decide it tomorrow. I am surprised that these MPs do not voluntarily waive their immunities,” Zafirov added.

He described as a political speculation the information spread by the Romanian news TV Digi 24 that three years after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is blaming Romania and Bulgaria with a propaganda film. 

“I suppose this is happening in the context of the 80th anniversary of victory in the Second World War. I did not see anywhere, in the sentence taken out of context from the film, that Bulgaria and Romania had any guilt for the war in Ukraine,” Zafirov said. “Putin also says in the film that Romania and Bulgaria contributed to the tensions that led to the war in Ukraine by accepting U.S. bases on their territory. There are no US bases in Bulgaria, there are shared facilities that are under Bulgarian command. Regarding the military aid from Bulgaria to Ukraine, it should be transformed into humanitarian and economic aid,” he added.