This session had nothing in common in terms of tone with what was in the National Assembly. Everyone united around the thanks to the firefighters, military personnel and volunteers. There were not many different opinions on the organization of the functioning of the whole activity either. Decisions were made with full agreement to continue communication between the SC and the MC, which is a good sign of how the institutions should interact. This was stated by acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev at a briefing after the meeting of the Security Council.
"Everything in the state is consistent - another disaster, people are left without homes and this is the mirror of the incompetence of all those who had to make decisions during these years. Again, it is being discussed what machines to buy, what planes to buy, what helicopters, the interests are in which ministry to go there". This was stated by Stanislav Balabanov from the PG of "There is such a people" (ITN) after the meeting of the Security Council of the Council of Ministers.
"The most practical idea is that we have Cougar helicopters. With them you can buy the so-called water pockets, it will be cheaper for the state. There are still ideas to purchase aircraft, but it will take at least 2 years until these machines arrive, to be able to train a crew to operate them," he also predicted.
He expressed the hope that there would be sense in the leaders and a consensus would be sought on such topics to prevent such tragedies in the future.
The important thing is that after this discussion there will be proposals for decisions that will be submitted to the National Assembly and will be considered. There is complete consensus among all parliamentary groups that it should not be decided piecemeal, but there should be a clear plan of what is urgent, what is within a few months, what is for a longer period of time, said the chairman of the PG on PP-DB Nikolay Denkov.
"You already know about the decision on new firefighting equipment, but when it comes to buying helicopters and airplanes, that requires a completely different time scale. It requires decisions related to budget planning. What was seen in the discussion is that there are decisions that can be made faster," Denkov pointed out. He gave the example of last year's floods, when he, then in his capacity as prime minister, requested a report, which was subsequently accepted by the Council of Ministers, in which there were emergency measures and other measures that were for a longer-term plan," Denkov also commented .
He compared that last year's disasters were the floods in the country, while now they are the fires.