“The country is facing a huge problem. Today, the Tripartite Council examines the budgets of the National Health Insurance Fund and the National Insurance Institute. The parameters laid down in them are directly related to the numbers in the state budget. And there is a bomb planted in it for 1.2 billion BGN income from the Bulgarian Energy Holding, which is not there”, said the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Kornelia Ninova in Burgas, where the Party’s Executive Bureau is holding its postponed meeting.
According to the Ministry of Finance, “there is a spectacular discrepancy between two public reports from the Bulgarian Energy Holding and more than BGN 1 billion have disappeared with accounting balances during the time of the office”, Ninova pointed out. She added:
“Despite their lack, Vassilev has pledged them as income and appointed a financial audit. GERB, for its part, through Delyan Dobrev, referred to the prosecutor’s office that Vassilev was draining the company by withdrawing this money from the Bulgarian Energy Holding and writing it off as income in the budget. Can you imagine how a budget will be adopted when the two ruling coalitions are at each other’s throats because of the BGN 1 billion scam? This scandal will blow the budget. And it may not be accepted at all.”
According to her, if these funds are not available, expenses for such an amount must be cut.
“From where? From salaries, pensions, children’s, from municipalities, hospitals, cultural institutions? Or else the most important law in the country, concerning every Bulgarian citizen, will rely on floating majorities with the golden finger of „Revival“. The time has come for the disgraceful coalition of omerta and immunities to reach into people’s pockets. Every Bulgarian will pay to save Borissov’s immunity and the ministerial posts for Continuing the Change-Democratic Bulgaria“, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party also pointed out.”
Today the leadership of the party is meeting with the Regional Councils of the BSP in Burgas, Sliven and Yambol to discuss the current situation and preparations for the upcoming local elections. The meetings were attended by the deputy chairman of the BSP Atanas Zafirov, the organizational secretary of the Centenary Borislav Gutsanov, the people’s representatives Petar Kanev and Deyan Dechev, the member of the Executive Bureau of the party Asen Gagauzov, the regional chairman of the BSP-Burgas and member of the IB Stoyko Tankov and the chairman of BSP-Burgas Zhivko Gospodinov.
