TISP Floor Leader Yordanov: We Supported the “Old” Budget to Make Opposition Clear

UPDATED TISP Floor Leader Yordanov: We Supported the “Old” Budget to Make Opposition Clear

Metodi Yordanov, Sofia Gospodinova

TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov during the consultations (BTA Photo/Blagoy Kirilov)

Sofia,

17.12.2025 12:23 | UPDATED 17.12.2025 12:40

(BTA)

“We supported the ‘old’ budget to enter plenary discussion so that it is clear to all Bulgarian citizens who opposes it,” Toshko Yordanov, There Is Such a People (TISP) Floor Leader, said here on Wednesday during consultations with President Rumen Radev, which the head of State is holding with political forces prior to handing the cabinet-forming mandates.

“Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) have been avoiding responsibility, because a state entering a new year without a budget or with an extended budget could face problems,” Yordanov added. He recalled that the budget backed by the government had also been supported by unions and employers, representing major social groups that should either support it or not. “However, it was blocked by PP–DB, and today we wanted it to be clear who is opposed,” Yordanov said.

He emphasized that parliament will vote only on the bill for the state budget extension. Yordanov said that CC-DB, by leveraging public protests, began to avoid responsibility, as a state without a budget could face serious problems. “A large portion of social payments depends on the state budget,” he added.

In response to a question, he said that in the current political situation it is not reasonable to seek a new reconfiguration of the government.

The parliamentary situation, he explained, is a result of constitutional amendments made by CC-DB and GERB, with the support of [Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) - New Beginning leader] Delyan Peevski and MRF. Yordanov recalled that TISP had twice challenged the amendments in the Constitutional Court. “We are in a situation where it simply rained down, and we adapted to it. CC-DB created the situation we are now in,” he said.

On the Election Code, Toshko Yordanov said that TISP had proposed changes to voting rules as soon as they entered Parliament. The amendments passed the first reading, went through committees, and were worked on in working groups, Yordanov recalled. He described the changes as reasonable and urged MPs to support the bill, which has broad consensus. According to him, there is no problem with renting machines with scanning devices; the real problem for him and for TISP are the so-called “dead souls” in the voter lists.

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