site.btaYes, Bulgaria Co-Chair Mirchev: Brigade Installs Anti-Parking Bollards to Prevent Movement for Rights and Freedoms Leader Peevski Blockade

Yes, Bulgaria Co-Chair Ivaylo Mirchev posted on Facebook that workers were ripping up the yellow cobblestones to install anti-parking bollards at the service entrance of the National Assembly so that no one could block MRF Chair and MRF-New Beginning Floor Leader Delyan Peevski, Yes, Bulgaria said here on Saturday.

Mirchev said that the yellow cobblestones were being removed at exactly the same place where, earlier in the week, Continue the Change (CC) parked their cars in order to prevent Movement for Rights and Freedoms Leader Peevski from entering the service entrance of Parliament. The action was in support of detained Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev and former Sofia deputy mayor Nikola Barbutov.

According to Mirchev, this is a perfect example of a captured State. If “the big D” has a problem, it is resolved within 24 hours, Mirchev said.

“The same person who explained that he is not afraid of anything and does not need protection has evidently become truly frightened,” Mirchev added.

In Mirchev's view, Peevski is the only MP to whom the Council of Ministers responds instantly. He said on Friday, “Peevski sent a letter to Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov to ask him about the water shortages in the country. Hours later, the prime minister reported back to him as if to a Komsomol leader, responding anxiously to every question raised. This is the captured State in action: executing break, clean, and remove operations at maximum speed,” Mirchev said.

Mirchev stressed that when Peevski wants something done, it is done immediately. However, when a city is left without water, the captured State does not respond with the same urgency. Instead, it acts slowly and laboriously, forming commissions and groups of people to explain that they are not corrupt and have not stolen hundreds of millions of BGN for water and dams, he added.

He also recalled the legislative initiative by Continue the Change–Democratic Bulgaria, which seeks to ensure that no MP, except the National Assembly Chair, uses the protection of the National Service for Protection (NSP). “Every month, taxpayers pay hundreds of thousands of leva for Peevski’s protection. We want taxpayers to continue funding Peevski’s protection, but the payments should go to the General Directorate for the Execution of Sentences, which manages the prisons, instead of the NSP,” Mirchev said.