site.btaTISP’s Stanislav Balabanov: There Is No Alternative to Current Government

“There is no alternative to us, but a pitiful gathering of people for whom power is everything,” said There Is Such a People (TISP) deputy floor leader Stanislav Balabanov, during debates in the plenary hall on the fifth vote of no confidence against the Zhelyazkov cabinet. The motion was submitted by Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), supported by MEPs and the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms.

Balabanov attacked the motives behind the vote, saying that the first thing that stands out is that the majority of the claims from the initiators are based mainly on questionable sources and rumors such. If the motives are based on rumors, this is not only unserious but also a sign of serious political helplessness, commented Balabanov.

Next, he noted the mechanical assembly of the motives, which led to the inclusion of reasoning in the section on failure in internal security that has nothing to do with the work of the Interior Ministry or with justice. For example, it is claimed that the Interior Ministry is misusing funds from significant public projects, as well as specific projects for the delivery of buses. As for law enforcement, examples are given from elections held by the National Assembly for judges in the Constitutional Court, the Commission for the Protection of Competition, and members of the Audit Office. Obviously, the initiators have their own understanding of the concepts of internal security and justice, which differs from the generally accepted one, but they have not presented it in their motives, which gives grounds to believe that the actual idea of the initiators is for the vote to concern the overall policy, but they did not consider it necessary to state it explicitly. Because they clearly know that if a vote on overall policy is rejected, there is a constitutional prohibition against introducing a new one within the next six months, stressed Balabanov.