site.btaTISP Leadership Insinuates Connection between Caretaker Cabinet and Petrohan Case

There Is Such a People (TISP) Deputy Floor Leader Stanislav Balabanov told reporters in Parliament on Wednesday that the Andrey Gurov caretaker cabinet can be named Petrohan. Balabanov was making a reference to the three bodies found with gunshot wounds near the Petrohan Pass on February 2, which was followed by three more bodies found near Okolchitsa Peak on February 8.

The Deputy Floor Leader of TISP said: "Deputy Prime Minister in the caretaker government is the Anti-Corruption Fund lawyer Andrey Yankulov, meaning that currently in the cabinet there are representatives of the NGO [National Protected Areas Control Agency, aka NPACA] that, according to public information, has exerted pressure on the Ministry of Interior to conceal the reports surrounding Petrohan. I am noticing that the Minister of Agriculture and Food is Ivan Hristanov, who was in front of the Petrohan lodge, looking for evidence that the six casualties were executed by the mafia in the country. Later we found out from the Interior Ministry that [the six people] committed suicide."

Balabanov stated that that the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for April will be conducted as desired by Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), as "[CC Chair] Assen Vassilev] had hoped", since Emil Dechev, proposed for caretaker Minister of the Interior, is a former deputy minister in Kiril Petkov's cabinet.

The TISP MP expressed doubt that Stoil Tzitzelkov, the proposed caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Fair Elections, will be able to organize fair elections due to his "heavy" connection with CC-DB.

Balabanov called Ahmed Dogan, the honorary chair of the Alliance of Rights and Freedoms, the father of the backroom politics model in Bulgaria. the TISP MP added that Dogan has two ministers in the proposed cabinet - Labour Minister Hasan Ademov and Transport and Communications Minister Korman Ismailov.

TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov stated that the NPACA never submitted a single alert to the Interior Ministry since it was established in 2022, while the Anti-corruption Fund was exerting pressure on the Ministry. Yordanov slammed the Interior Ministry for having been asleep at the time of Nikolay Denkov's cabinet.