Vazrazhdane to Skip Most Parliamentary Work to Spend Another Month "among People"

UPDATED Vazrazhdane to Skip Most Parliamentary Work to Spend Another Month "among People"

Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov speaks in Parliament, September 3, 2025 (BTA Photo/Nikola Uzunov)

Sofia,

03.09.2025 10:14 | UPDATED 03.09.2025 11:45

(BTA)

As they addressed Parliament at the opening of the autumn session, the nationalist Vazrazhdane party declared that they would skip most parliamentary work in order to spend "another month among people", to use the words of party leader Kostadin Kostadinov. "We will attend parliamentary sessions for votes of no confidence and to defend our legislative proposals — if by some miracle they make it to the agenda of this illegitimate parliament," he said.

"We will see firsthand the real problems people face and will defend them with all our strength and means against the local strongmen," he added.

Kostadinov added that Vazrazhdane’s presence among the people would be “a thousand times more useful” than being among the MPs in Parliament.

The new session opened to the sound of the national anthem and the EU anthem. The MPs were on recess from August 1 to 31.

Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov issued a stark warning that "Bulgaria has little time to lose if we don’t want to become silent witnesses to our own demise." He emphasized the urgency of restoring Bulgarian people's faith in themselves and their future.

Kostadinov described how Bulgarian-made products have become rare in stores, lamenting that the food of Bulgarian origin has nearly vanished from the market. “Our roads have become the threshold of hell, we’ve become major exporters of talented children, youth, and gold—and in return, the number one importer of garbage in the EU," he said.

Kostadinov also decried the country’s transformation from a Balkan paradise into what he calls "GERBland," a place where nearly everyone dreams of escaping the thugs who have taken over power. He claimed no other nation has been so trampled, oppressed, humiliated, and tormented by its rulers as Bulgaria has.

Recounting a personal incident involving a person close to him, Kostadinov shared that due to a health complication, he sought a particular medicine unavailable in Bulgaria, only to be told, "The answer was simple—drugs are expensive, and it’s cheaper for patients to die than for the health fund to pay for them."

Highlighting systemic neglect, he noted that their parliamentary team mapped the national water supply network and found it dire: 86% of pipes require immediate full replacement, 12% partial repair, and only 2% remain in decent condition. Kostadinov concluded by warning of a worsening water crisis that could leave 300,000 people without water next year, while income inequality grows—with the spoils concentrated in the hands of "anti-Bulgarian mafioso elites" while ordinary citizens suffer.

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