"I do not agree that Sofia is not getting better. The problem is that it doesn't work at the speed or quality that we want it to happen. What prevents Sofia from being a beautiful city is the lack of attention to detail".
Boris Bonev, chairman of the PP-DB-Save Sofia group in the Capital Municipal Council (SOC), said this to the BNR.
He noted the long time it takes for the projects. And he gave an example of the sidewalk in front of the Audit Office:
"To repair this sidewalk, which is in an ugly state and every day people fall, the project was started 9 months ago. It is currently at the Ministry of Culture for coordination.
We found Sofia completely unprepared in terms of projects, stated Boris Bonev and emphasized that all this will take a lot of time and work. According to him, the fact that we are holding elections in a few months does not help at all:
"This leads to a complete blockage of the work in the Municipal Council".
According to him, the political crisis, continuous elections and instability have a "monstrous" of the work of the SOS and the development of the city.
In the show "Sunday 150" Bonev noted that when elections are coming up, a real change in the behavior of politicians is observed, and their way of speaking becomes "severely populist and pre-election".
In his words, the unpopular but necessary reforms have been completely stopped.
According to him, the subject of a new General Development Plan should not be opened at the moment. He explained this with a decision of the Constitutional Court, which announced that the General Development Plan is subject to individual appeal. For him, this is a problematic decision because:
"This means that the collective interest of the city will always fall victim to the private individual. Nobody would want their property to be zoned for a park, for example, if they could build a 10-story building there and sell it for a pretty hefty profit.
Boris Bonev was adamant that lessons are being learned from all problematic cases in the city. Still, he emphasized that there is no way to build large infrastructure projects in Sofia and make everyone happy. In the big city, the municipality should make a mix of the interest of everyone, and not of the individual, the municipal councilor is categorical.