< strong>This was the last opportunity to save more than BGN 2 billion under the recovery plan, commented Delyan Dobrev from GERB - SDS, after the plenary session of the parliament was adjourned.
The two draft decisions submitted by GERB-SDS and deputies from the PG of the DPS made it possible for this money to come, he explained. Unfortunately, Dobrev pointed out, with this circus that took place in the plenary hall, we irretrievably lost many billions of funds from European funds, because the deadline was September 30, and there cannot be a session of the parliament until September 30, because from September 27 it starts the election campaign. He pointed out that they spent the whole morning negotiating with the presidents of the trade union organizations and specifying the texts in which BGN 500 million is planned to be given. for restoration and reclamation of mine sites. “Revival“ and BSP took an active action to make Bulgaria lose billions from European funds, added Delyan Dobrev.
Who is interested in Bulgaria losing funds from the EU, he asked.
The pro-Russian party “Revival”, which, among other things, is Eurosceptic, wants to revise our membership in the EU and NATO, and this is one of the tools – to talk about how the EU wants to close our energy industry and how it does not give any funds to the miners and others employed in this field, this is our political reading, comments Yordan Tsonev from the PG of the DPS. The other culprit for making the process of absorbing the money so complicated are “We continue the change-Democratic Bulgaria” and in particular Asen Vasilev, who set the conditions in the recovery plan.
Guarantees are provided for in this decision and it is written that the money will go only to the people of the Mariška Basin, explained his colleague Stanislav Anastasov. It is about BGN 500 million specifically for miners and energy workers, which practically doubles the already voted resource of BGN 250 million. per year, for the next two years it would have been a breath of fresh air, which was failed, the deputy stressed.
This resource, which we would have received free of charge from the EU, must now be provided by the national budget of Bulgaria, explained Temenuzka Petkova, deputy chairman of the PG of GERB-SDS. It is good, in her words, for those parties that failed the meeting and show pseudo-concern for the Bulgarian miners to say where these funds will come from, what and who we will deprive of half a billion, which sphere we will deprive of this money in order to secure the money for the Bulgarian miners, she asked.