Atanas Pekanov: Asen Vassilev also lied about the metro in Plovdiv – Politics

It is clear that there is a lot of lying during elections, but this stupidity gets to me more. Last Sunday, Asen Vassilev stood in front of the citizens of Plovdiv at the Roman Stadium and told them that he had included a project for a metro in Plovdiv (city railway) to the airport in the Recovery Plan (respectively, it should be implemented by the summer of 2026). The conversation was also uploaded to the party’s page. Former Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Pekanov wrote this on Facebook.

There is no such project in the Bulgarian Recovery and Sustainability Plan (which was developed in 2021 and approved in 2022) – it does not exist. I have heard of such ideas from other people, they may be good, but they have always been only theoretical. There is no such project, no such funding.

Asen Vasilev shows a beautiful visualization of a 30-second clip and promises that, based on this clip, construction can start next year (and apparently finish a little after that, because the projects on the PVU are until the summer of 2026).

What is the point of this lie? What is he wearing? How many votes does it have? Then how do we convince people that not all are mascaras? Because people, deceived by these shiny videos, will believe and wait for something to be done. How do we then convince them that Europe is actually doing meaningful things for us? Well, then of course we can always say that someone else is to blame, but let’s not wonder why there is low voter turnout, skepticism, anti-European sentiment and so on.