The additional 15 million leva subsidy provided by the government to the capital's transport is categorical evidence of a political scenario of the protest, the price of which is paid by all Sofia residents. This was stated in Blagoevgrad by the co-chairman of "We continue the change" Assen Vassilev also predicts that the protests will catalyze in other sectors.
The 15 million allocated by the government to increase salaries in the capital's transport sector is money from all Bulgarian taxpayers and will not solve the real problems, commented Assen Vassilev, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.
"The salvation is to look at the finances of the companies, to look at the external orders, to look at the price at which the fuels are purchased. And also to look at the efficiency of transport. And only then to bring in additional money for subsidies. Any doubts that the protest is political were dispelled - by the behavior and the outcome,", noted Vassilev.
It is unacceptable for the rulers to solve problems in some sectors at the expense of others, said the co-chairman of "We continue the change" and gave an example:
"We had proposed that 60 million be set aside from the Health Fund budget, the increase of which was over 1 billion, so that there would be normal salaries for nurses, midwives and young doctors - so that they would stay in Bulgaria, not flee abroad. And suddenly what happens? Should doctors stop admitting patients to the hospital in order to receive normal salaries?"
According to Assen Vassilev, this is just the beginning of public tension from the unfair income policy and the distribution of "money from the black market and the jeep":
"It is not normal to raise salaries in some sectors by 50%, and in other sectors by 5%. It is absolutely abnormal, this will create public tension. "If an income policy is being made, it should be done in a way that is fair for all citizens of the state, and not so that someone comes to protest and has money thrown at them from the window of the Council of Ministers," commented Asen Vassilev.