„BSP-UNITED LEFT” will nominate a candidate for Speaker of the National Assembly who is an undisputed authority and capable of uniting the parliamentary formations to a constructive dialogue. This was stated by the chairman of the left union Atanas Zafirov in the program “Sunday 150” of the BNR.
According to him, the first test for the parliament will be the election of its chairman and whether the procedures for handing over the mandates and government talks will be moved at all. According to him, neither the first nor the second political force has offered a consensus option for getting out of the political impasse. “On the contrary,we see a hardening of positions – GERB, looking for support for a narrow party cabinet, it is not clear from whom, and PP-DB, talking about some sanitary cordons, which is more of an attempt to cover up guilty consciences. Our sanitary cordon was given by the Congress of the BSP with decisions on non-coalition with these formations and they are still in force, commented Zafirov.
He also said that the left is ready for dialogue only on important priorities for Bulgaria, which he singled out as the financial stability of the state, guaranteeing the social rights of citizens, energy and national security, equal access to quality healthcare and education and the country's accelerated development. “The Bulgarian citizen is placed in an intolerable situation of not being able to guarantee the existence of his loved ones, and for any left-minded person this is unacceptable. "Solutions must be sought, but they cannot be unprincipled and uncontrolled," the socialist pointed out.
In the words of Atanas Zafirov, all political forces must make efforts to adopt a fair and adequate budget for 2025. He described as frightening the prospect of going into next year with the old budget, as it meant halting investment and freezing income. “Our approach will be zero tolerance for freezing incomes and increasing the tax burden on citizens. We are ready to support the taxation of bank excess profits, which was our campaign proposal. Zero tolerance for corruption is an additional form of replenishment of state finances. The pursuit of a 3% budget deficit condemns socially vulnerable groups to poverty and hunger and does not correspond to reality – the hole in the budget showed it”, thinks Zafirov.
According to him, the doubts about the legality and fairness of the elections are more than justified and therefore “BSP-UNITED LEFT” has supported the request to count the vote. „The evidence of manipulations in the minutes, of adding votes and of other violations is abundant. The silence of the prosecutor's office is disturbing. With the total collapse of almost all state institutions, the Constitutional Court is obliged to stand up to its responsibilities and rule on the violations in the election process and on the clumsy changes in the Constitution that led to political offices, Atanas Zafirov also said.< /p>