Rosen Zhelyazkov was not free

“The procedural problems and the violation of rules were because Rosen Zhelyazkov was not free,” said Kiril Petkov, the co-chairman of “We continue the change”.

Petkov, Asen Vasilev and Nikolay Denkov spoke at an event broadcast on the party’s Facebook page.

“On April 17, the parliament dismissed the manager of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Stanimir Mihailov. Last week we had a head of the NHIF, who had not already resigned, who appeared in the hall, and although he had not resigned, he was in the hall – Zhelyazkov put his so-called resignation, which is not there, for a vote, and did not give him the floor,” Petkov said, adding that this is just one small example.

“These little examples have happened to us over the last nine months all the time and you know what’s troubling – it’s not like there’s some procedural trickery being played, it’s not even that she was looking him in the eye so much and didn’t give him a chance to say why he was doing it “, he also commented.

“If all this was his doing and based on what Rosen Zhelyazkov himself thought, we would simply say: ‘well, a political opponent, he doesn’t play clean, he doesn’t play nice, but an opponent who is free,’ Petkov pointed out. According to him, the real problem is that all these decisions, including this one, were not his. They belonged to Mr. Peevski,” Petkov believes.

“Every one of these procedural problems, violation of rules, violation even of the Constitution in one of the times, was not because he did not realize what he was doing, but because he had no choice, because he was not free,” he commented.

According to him, the political message to GERB was: “we will not participate with you anymore until you are free from this huge problem that you have, from this millstone that has attached itself to you” and clarified that this is Delyan Peevski as the person who currently holds permanent power. This is a vote of no confidence in anyone who is not free in this hall. You can have ideological differences with us, you can have different visions, but you must be free, he said Petkov.

Asen Vassilev was asked a question related to a meeting organized by Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski between the Mayor of Yambol and the Acting Minister of Finance. According to the co-chairman of the PP, if we return to this, the old model of financing municipalities, it is extremely bad for the state for two reasons – there is no fair distribution of money between all municipalities according to objective principles and criteria, and one mayor to be able to does something for the citizens in his municipality, he must become dependent on political leaders, which he says means that local government becomes a mirage.

Nikolay Denkov commented on the decision by which the Parliament obliged the Council of Ministers to provide funds from the state budget to “Mini Maritsa Iztok” EAD in the amount of BGN 250 million per year for a period of four years in order to ensure activities on technical reclamation of disturbed areas of deposit “Istoknomariska Coal Basin”.

“The problem of the miners and the energy workers is that they were consistently, systematically, persistently lied to by everyone, and today it continued, because they were promised BGN 1 billion from our money, from all of us, who, the moment they started are given to them, the European Commission will establish the obvious – that they are inadmissible state aid, and then we will have to pay them again, because they are inadmissible state aid. Meanwhile, without making much noise, we secured BGN 2.3 billion . for the regions of Stara Zagora, Pernik and Kyustendil,” he said.