PP-DB proposed a plan that gives the parties a chance to take in hands and to get the country out of the political crisis. Our plan contains no promise of success, but it provides a real opportunity to succeed before the crisis becomes chronic. This plan has already been rejected by Peevski's deputies in the parliament, which says enough about WHO will prevent its implementation.
We believe that the political crisis today is above all a crisis of confidence - our society does not believe that law enforcement agencies will really punish political corruption.
Therefore, in our plan we follow a simple principle - first the content, then the form. First we need to reach an agreement on the anti-corruption laws and decisions, and then start talking about the implementation of the second mandate.
The rule of law is our platform for conversation. If all of us in the parliament show responsibility, it can become a platform of national agreement.
This is what PP-DB deputy Ivaylo Mirchev commented on his Facebook page in connection with yesterday's meeting of the coalition with Rumen Radev and the requested postponement for the handing over of the second mandate. Mirchev also commented on the following:
As a political force that is about to get a second term, we consider it our duty to come up with a constructive solution. To test whether we even have grounds to go down this road, we will propose a declaration seeking the broad support of 2/3 of Parliament for at least 7 things:
- Support for the new Law on the Judiciary to have guarantees for an independent court and an accountable prosecutor;
- Support for filling the anti-corruption commission through a process approved by the European Commission;
- Support for the election of an ombudsman so that citizens have a public defender;
- Support for using the Criminal Procedure Code to limit abuses of the SRS and hiding public information behind investigative secrecy (as it is very clear from the case with the Notary that it happens);
- Support for amendments to the law on the protection of whistleblowers on corruption and other violations;
- Support for the adoption of a law on personal bankruptcy to guarantee the protection of hundreds of thousands of citizens who are bona fide debtors but have fallen into serious financial difficulties;
- Support for a first step in the reform of the security services by introducing periodic integrity and loyalty checks, incl. by polyphysiographic test.
Our goal is to give a chance for real, not just declarative changes, and we asked the president for time so that we could seek agreement on the above 7 measures.
Without them, we cannot talk about eradicating the model of the conquered state. And without this conversation, the other talks, the ones about government, would be doomed to end in the already familiar way. We are looking for broad support for every political force to take responsibility for dealing with the crisis and to stop stalking who voted with whom. Times are hard and the responsibility that all of us in Parliament bear is enormous.