site.btaCC-DB to Table No-confidence Motion over Government's Economic Policy on Friday

The Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) parliamentary group will table a vote of no confidence in the Government over its economic policy on Friday, MPs Nikolay Denkov and Bozhidar Bozhanov of CC-DB said in Parliament's lobby on Thursday. 

Bozhanov said that it is this issue that has galvanized so many people to protest. He added that the draft state budget for 2026 was the last straw in the Government's misguided policy against business, the middle class, economic development and reducing administrative burdens. According to him, the Cabinet's economic policy is completely misguided.

Denkov said that neither the Interior Ministry nor the Government have shown any humility or acknowledged that they owe the people an apology for what is currently happening to the young people detained during the protest against the Government's draft budget on December 1. The MP pointed out that it is unclear why those people are under arrest while others who perhaps should have been detained have been released. 

Bozhanov dismissed as an excuse the claim that the December 1 protest was unauthorized. "When there are 100,000 people protesting, there is no way to control them," said the MP. He emphasized that it is the Interior Ministry's job to guard the protest throughout its duration and check for provocateurs and described their work during the protest as " completely inadequate". 

MP Ivaylo Mirchev of CC-DB commented on the briefing given by MRF - New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski earlier on Thursday, where Peevski said that he and the CC-DB were the authors of draft parliamentary resolutions on aid to Ukraine. In Mirchev's words, CC-DB's policy had always been to support Ukraine. "I submitted a proposal for 100 armoured personnel carriers to be sent to Ukraine, for which Bulgaria received hundreds of millions," he said. 

Mirchev insisted that Peevski's security detail from the National Service for Protection be removed. The MP added that this detail was assigned following a false report to the State Agency for National Security that a squad from Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) had come to Bulgaria to eliminate Peevski because of his support for Ukraine.