If everyone wants, I will resign, said the chairman of the Management Board of the "Road Infrastructure" Agency (API) Yordan Valchev, who came out to the people protesting against the "murders" on the road in front of the road agency building.
The question is that when we resign, it will be like every other time. Things have been going on for a long time. Highways are not being built, many things have been delayed. They will be delayed even more, he added.
The reaction of the RIA is that we have always responded to all signals, said Valchev.
He invited the parents of the deceased children to go up to the RIA building, where all issues could be discussed.
We categorically demand the resignation of the head of the RIA, said Petya Ivanova, founder of the association “Angels on the Road“, which organized the protest. If they had done their job, many of those killed would be alive, she added.
The protest march began in front of the Courthouse in Sofia, passed by the Ministry of Justice and the National Assembly building. The bill on experts is ready, we are working to tighten the penalties, Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev told protesters earlier today.
Our main demand is to change the legislation and categorize murders under the influence of alcohol, drugs, while driving at excessive speed or with fake license plates as intentional, Ninela Varbanova, a member of the “Angels on the Road” association, told BTA.
Currently, “unintentional murders” are being prosecuted, and that is why judges are giving suspended sentences in almost all cases, she explained. Some of the protesters carried photos of their loved ones who died in road accidents, and posters with the inscriptions “Siyana deserves life, not silence,” “Enough more murders on the road” and “Maximum sentence for drunk, drugged and reckless road killers“. A protest march is being organized a week after the accident that killed 12-year-old Siyana, BTA reports.