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Petar Moskov: Subsidizing household electricity prices is an antisocial policy! The poor continue to suffer!

For "Blue Bulgaria", the solution for the Bulgarian energy sector is to transition to a fully market principle

Jan 13, 2025 13:11 52

Petar Moskov: Subsidizing household electricity prices is an antisocial policy! The poor continue to suffer!  - 1

For "Blue Bulgaria" the solution for the Bulgarian energy sector is to transition to a fully market principle.

Subsidizing household electricity prices is an antisocial policy. It benefits wealthy consumers by providing them with cheap electricity, which we pay for with our taxes. The poor continue to suffer.

This is what the leader of "Blue Bulgaria" warns about on "Facebook" Petar Moskov.

Household consumers must enter the free market, and

the state must compensate the poor through social programs with clear criteria.

The money from our taxes, with which the state should finance these social programs, now goes to subsidies for businesses that are on the "free energy market". The quotation marks are because this is neither a market nor free. When prices on this "market" are high for consumers, the state pays them with our taxes. When prices on this "market" are low for electricity producers, the state pays them with our taxes.

I recall that the most money from our taxes goes to the energy-poor "Lukoil".

I also recall that the contracts of RES producers are for over 500 leva. for megawatts, which are necessarily paid to them, again from our taxes.

This is not a business, but a social program through which we all finance with our taxes a guaranteed profit for some people.

This is not a market, but an oligarchic economic environment.

This is not economic freedom, but socialism in which it is important not to be better than your competitor, but to be on the minister's list for state subsidies.

To change this, a right-wing reformist majority is needed. There is none in today's Parliament.

Moreover, there is not a single right-wing reformist party that wants it.

Regardless of whether it will be part of the future assembly or not.