In front of journalists on the sidelines of the parliament, the secretary of the PG of "BSP-United Left" Atanas Atanasov commented on today's failed session of the National Assembly due to lack of quorum, a reporter for Novini.bg reported.
This is due to the fact that the parliament rejected an item proposed by "We continue the change-Democratic Bulgaria", related to Russia. For "Continuing Change-Democratic Bulgaria" the agenda is limited only to Russia. We are in the Bulgarian parliament and the agenda of the citizens is different - incomes, prices, waterlessness. After the completely meaningless and unfounded vote of no confidence that we witnessed last week, after the car show that they arranged in front of the parliament, today we see another destructive move by the opposition. I don't know with what eyes these people will look at their voters and take their salaries at the end of the month. I want to remind my colleagues from "Continuing Change-Democratic Bulgaria" that the series of elections, election campaigns and chaos ended more than nine months ago. We now have a regular, stable government and it's time to get to work. So I ask them to behave responsibly, to be present in the hall and to work, said Atanasov.
I suppose they may have been worried about the second item on the agenda - the bill on safety and security during football matches, because the opposition is trying to turn the Bulgarian parliament into a football match - with agitation, with shouting, with shouting, with a fight in the hall. This is not the normal way a Bulgarian parliament should work so that Bulgaria can move in a normal direction, added the MP from the left, Gabriel Valkov.
They may also be worried about the third item - the annual report on youth. This report has not been adopted for five years, but it is important because we see what is happening with young people, we see what is happening on the roads, we see drug addiction, addiction to gambling among young people. Instead of solving real problems of young people and Bulgarian citizens, we are dealing with foreign topics, with topics that do not exist on the agenda of society, with things that are not real. This must stop and the parliament must return to a normal dialogue, to a discussion for which we also receive our salaries. We also see "Vazrazhdane", who have been receiving salaries for a month now without entering and without working in the hall, which is not serious and I think it should stop as a practice, commented the socialist.
When journalists reminded them of the phrase that it is the duty of the ruling party to ensure a quorum, Gabriel Valkov pointed out: "Today there were 110 members of parliament in the hall. The rest, from the opposition, were apparently elected by Bulgarian citizens to receive salaries, not to ensure a quorum and not to do work. If we want to have a normal state and the Bulgarian parliament to work, then all parties must come in, ensure the quorum and defend their theses for which they are here".