site.btaContinue the Change to Alert All Institutions Responsible for Waste Management in Sofia

Continue the Change (CC) will alert all institutions with responsibilities related to waste management in Sofia, the party said in a press release on Tuesday. The political formation called on these institutions “to perform their duties conscientiously instead of sabotaging the right of Sofia residents to a clean and orderly city”. The party also voiced full support for Mayor Vassil Terziev and his team in their efforts to ensure a cleaner capital “in accordance with the rules and without a corruption tax from citizens’ pockets”.

“Sofia will not be a city run by the mafia,” Continue the Change declared, adding that “a solution to the capital’s waste problem, one that serves the people, will be found”.

According to the statement, “Those in power and the mafia have merged into one against the citizens of Sofia. We are witnessing extortion, criminal sabotage, and institutional inaction – [GERB leader] Borissov and [Movement for Rights and Freedoms – New Beginning leader] Peevski have activated a large-scale dirty blackmail operation over Sofia’s garbage only because Mayor Vassil Terziev refused to stand under the party emblem, refused to join the scheme that robs Sofia’s citizens for the benefit of the mafia’s coffers, and refused to double the waste collection fee, as the GERB-New Beginning mayors in Burgas and Plovdiv have done.”

The statement continues: “The same mafia forcibly eliminated competitors from public procurement tenders through revoked licenses, burned trucks, and intimidated waste management company executives. Now it is flooding the Lyulin and Krasno Selo boroughs with unprecedented amounts of garbage, because someone promised them to [Hristoforos] “Taki” [Amanatidis] at triple prices and mobilized district mayors to join the sabotage against the Sofia Municipality.”

“This is not a garbage crisis. It is a clash of two worlds – the old one, where a few influential figures with nicknames dictate the rules, and the new one, where people demand transparency, order, and justice,” Sofia Mayor Vassil Terziev wrote on Facebook.