site.btaPresident Iotova on International Workers’ Day: We Celebrate Rights Fought For Over Generations

“We celebrate rights fought for over generations. But today, the right to decent work and fair income, justice, and social security are being put to the test - not only in Bulgaria, but globally as well,” President Iliana Iotova said in a Facebook post on the occasion of May 1 - International Workers’ Day.

“It is unacceptable that in the 21st century, in a European Bulgaria, the category of the ‘working poor’ still exists; their high number is shameful,” she said. “Bold and competent politicians are needed, ones who not only speak, but act, to ensure that people of honest labor, people with ability, ambition, and talent, are not suffocated by poverty and crushed self-esteem. On the contrary, their creative power should be encouraged. And that power is in the DNA of the Bulgarian people,” the President added.