“The proposal to terminate the concession for the Rosenets oil port is yet another rushed and wrong idea of political leaders,” President Rumen Radev told journalists on Wednesday.
He was attending a solemn academic session on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
Radev said that the government of Boyko Borissov had awarded the port under concession.
It is yet to see whether this proposal is a result of corporate interests or a crisis PR, added Radev.
“The caretaker government did not terminate the concession, which is in place for another 24 years, because it fought with the staggering prices of fuels, brought on us by the four-party coalition,” said Radev.
According to him, the caretaker government did what the regular government had to do and collected BGN 180 million in taxes from Lukoil in five months, twice as much as all regular did governments in 15 years.
„I hope that they did a risk assessment of what is behind the port because there is a large logistics base, which belongs to Lukoil. How will the port operate with this logistics base, without which the transportation of oil to the refinery is impossible and most importantly how this will affect the prices of fuels“, said Radev.
/PP/
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