site.btaContinue the Change to Table No-confidence Motion in Autumn, Says Chair Assen Vassilev

Continue the Change (CC) leader Assen Vassilev told journalists after the party held a National Council on Saturday that CC will ask for a vote of no confidence “against the robbery of the Bulgarian people” in the autumn.  

There are three topics for a vote of no confidence, which CC will propose to their partners from Democratic Bulgaria: healthcare, prices and incomes and regional policy and demography.

Vassilev explained that there are “enough cases in healthcare” to ask for a vote of no confidence for a policy failure in this area. He showed a document which he claimed was a request from the Minister of Health to the Minister of Finance to include almost BGN 1 billion in the budget for the new children's hospital. According to the Minister of Health, the new children's hospital will cost almost BGN 1 billion over the next three years, with the cost of construction excluding equipment being BGN 4,000 per square metre, the CC Chair said.

Now do you understand why we are standing in their way? Because there is no BGN 60 million for the salaries of young doctors, but a request is being made to set aside BGN 1 billion for the children's hospital, given that when I was finance minister, the public council had said that this hospital would cost just over BGN 100 million,” Vassilev said.

The looming impoverishment of citizens and the fact that prices are rising faster than incomes is the reason to propose the other topic of the vote of no confidence, Vassilev explained. This government's policies are raising prices more than incomes, he said.

Regarding regional policy, Vassilev asked how money is given to mayors who are photographed "with [MRF-New Beginning leader Delyan] Peevski's coat of arms". He argued that the intention of the municipal programme for the development of projects in municipalities is not being implemented.

"What happened yesterday in the courtroom is a complete violation of the law in Bulgaria. This is the revenge of a machine, a dirty machine, against a mayor who it failed to buy because he was in their way," Vassilev said regarding the case of Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev.

“What we see is that the government and the parliamentary majority that supports it have declared war on the Bulgarian people, we are the ones who obstruct them the most, but they will not stop with us,” Vassilev said in response to a question whether CC expects attacks against other mayors.