The Financial Supervision Commission must take a stand. Apparently, their colleagues had a hard time calculating exactly how many euros 2 leva would be. This is absolute racketeering. This was stated by Ivan Videlov, a municipal councilor in Sofia from the Bulgarian Socialist Party, after the decision that the blue zone in the capital will become 2 euros from next year, and the green zone - 1 euro.
Dimitar Petrov, a municipal councilor from “We continue the change - Democratic Bulgaria”, commented: “This is being done to make it easier for consumers. The average salary from 2012 to 2025 in Sofia has increased by 260%. We are not increasing with what has increased as income, but we are increasing half as much.”
„At the moment, the funds collected from paid parking - 40 million leva - went to the Central Government and covered the administrative costs of this company. There is nothing left for an infrastructure project. With the reform, there will be an income of 60 million leva more than now, and they will not go to bonuses for the Board of Directors, the 13th salary, etc.“, he added on BNT.
Videlov emphasized that the blue zone was created with the promise of building parking lots, but there are none 20 years later: „The streets are municipal and they are for the people. We are extorting money from the people. They will take money without making any repairs anywhere.”
„Two years is an extremely short time to create parking lots in Sofia, given that the previous administration did nothing in 18 years”, explained the municipal councilor from the PP-DB.
According to him, all political groups are equally dissatisfied with the decision adopted yesterday.
„Why are we chasing the Western European model only in restrictions? They don't have a problem with kindergartens and schools there”, added Videlov.