site.btaMECh Refuses to Back Vazrazhdane's Motion of No Confidence over Water Shortage Due to "Amateurish Reasoning"

Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh) will not sign Vazrazhdane's motion of no confidence over the water shortage "because its motives are amateurish," MECh Chair Radostin Vasilev said in Parliament on Friday. He added that earlier in the day they had been visited by Vazrazhdane MP Tsontcho Ganev and Vazrazhdane Deputy Floor Leader Peter Petrov, "who after two and a half months handed them their five-page motives for a vote of no confidence on the topic of water shortages."

"We were given a condition today to read them and immediately sign or refuse, and if we refuse, they will go to the media and say that we are refusing," Vasilev said.

"We read these five pages to our colleagues. We cannot sign such grounds because the issue of water scarcity is a huge problem that affects 300,000 people, and Vazrazhdane's grounds are amateurish, to say the least; they do not include a basic expert assessment of the problem and do not offer any solutions," Vasilev said. He added that Pleven and Lovech are mentioned only once in the motives, in a list. "From now on, we cannot support amateurish actions by the opposition," commented the MECh Chair.

The MECH Chair announced that they would support the request for the resignation of National Assembly Chair Nataliya Kiselova. "We also have our own reasons related to the disbanding of the MECh group and this Chair's systematic failure to handle with the Parliament's proceedings," he added.

Regarding the lack of quorum, which has prevented Parliament from sitting for three days, Vasilev commented: "A total of 31 people have been sent on official trips by the ruling majority at the moment, out of 140 – 31. There will be no quorum until next week, until they return," he added. "It would be better if they never came back and we went to elections," Vasilev said.

"We have been talking about corruption in power for a long time and we are glad that [President] Rumen Radev sees it in the person of [Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning Floor Leader] Deliyan Peevski, but it is also evident in the person of [GERB-UDF Floor Leader] Boyko Borissov," commented the leader of MECH on the head of State's Thursday statement. "Borissov and Peevski should never be separated in terms of corruption," he added, expressing hope that after new elections, a "real cordon around corruption" would be built.