site.btaVelichie Calls Cabinet to Increase All Public Employees' Salaries by 50%

Velichie demanded in a Friday declaration that the Government increase the salaries of all public employees by 50%. The parliamentary group's Floor Leader Ivelin Mihaylov pointed out that the wages of nurses, who are in a desperate situation, should be increased by 100%.

"The people in the National Revenue Agency are taking the negatives of this policy and at the same time they are the 'battlefield', but they have only received a 5% pay rise and the Interior Ministry's officials - 50%," Mihaylov gave an example. "And we know that [Movement for Rights and Freedoms - New Beginning Floor Leader] Delyan Peevski will take care of his people, not just the Interior Ministry, he knows where and how to get money, he has it in the state and he can do it," Velichie's statement reads. 

In transport, not only Sofia needs more funds, but also Plovdiv, Burgas, Stara Zagora, Dobrich, Mihaylov continued.

"Delyan Peevski and [GERB - UDF Floor Leader] Boyko Borissov made a 'social atomic bomb' by raising the salaries of only one sector, which they need to maintain this tension and help [Vazrazhdane Floor Leader] Kostadin Kostadinov to fulfill his threats," the statement reads. "It has come to the absurdity of making people miserable in certain spheres, while in one, the police, there are people from the services who in December took a BGN 30,000 salary, while a nurse has to do with a salary of BGN 900 and has to work in dangerous wards," said Mihaylov. He reproached the Bulgarian Socialist Party for talking about social policy - "what kind of social policy can we talk about with such inequality and injustice."

"The surface transport strike in Sofia which is fair, is not the fault of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria," Velichie's Floor Leader pointed out. He added that Borissov and Peevski are creating problems in the city and making it so that the Mayor cannot do any work, blocking the Sofia Municipal Council. "I do not know the Mayor, let the people of Sofia get angry at these two 'titans' and go after their money," Mihaylov said.

In the declaration, Velichie called on people not to pay taxes until their salaries are raised.