"The reason for holding a new protest is the people's concern about the uncertainty – what will happen when the euro is adopted". This was explained to the Bulgarian National Radio by Petar Petrov, an MP from the "Vazrazhdane" party.
The party invited all Bulgarian citizens to join and express their opinion on Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone to the deputies. The protest is taking place in front of the parliament, and the leader of "Vazrazhdane" Kostadin Kostadinov announced that actions are also planned inside the building.
"They see that there is a party inside that protects their interests. The problems are elsewhere – they are in those European bureaucrats who do not hear their voice and in the servile rulers who are trying to please the European bureaucrats, without seeing that Russia and America will come to an agreement on Ukraine. Trump announced that he will lift the sanctions against Russia if the EU does not do so".
The EU is a sinking boat, according to Petrov.
"It does not take into account the changes in the world. The sanctions against Russia will be maintained. The Bulgarian state also suffers from this".
Bulgaria has submitted a request for an extraordinary convergence report based on the understanding that our country meets the criteria for entering the eurozone, commented Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov. According to him, there are many steps that Bulgaria must take before it becomes clear whether it is ready to introduce the euro. The convergence report on the eurozone will probably be released in early June.
Nobody asked ordinary people with a referendum on the euro, said Petar Petrov.
"The Bulgarian has lost the feeling that something depends on him. The constitution also provides for the direct participation of citizens".
During the protest organized by the "Vazrazhdane" party on 22.02, against the introduction of the euro, tension arose in front of the European Commission building in Sofia, after protesters threw paint and tried to set fire to the door of the building. There were injured police officers and detained protesters.
According to Petrov, however, "there was no violence - neither from the protesters towards the police, nor from the police towards the protesters".
"Let's call the expression of a civic position by throwing paint at a building vandalism! This is not the first time that paint has been thrown at this building. The next day, red paint was thrown in front of the Russian embassy.
If there are cases of damage to property - this should not happen anywhere. The bad thing is that there is such a level of disbelief among Bulgarian citizens that some of them are already taking extreme actions. And there is no way that we can be responsible for every single action that is taken as a sign of protest and disagreement with a system.
Bulgarian citizens are intelligent enough and I don't think that they will want to damage the National Assembly building today, Petrov noted in the program "Predi visci".