Krasimir Karakachanov from VMRO went after Borisov for acting happy about protests forcing a budget withdrawal, and the former defense minister asked why the party leader could not just stop his government from pushing garbage fiscal plans in the first place. Karakachanov said GERB has been running things for 19 years but lost touch with what regular people actually need, and he pointed out that Bulgaria sits at the bottom of EU rankings for basically everything from economy strength to birth rates, while millions bailed to other countries.
The VMRO leader claimed the good stuff that happened for citizens came from the patriot coalition pressure instead of GERB's initiative, like blocking the Istanbul Convention or doubling the...
Bulgaria just jacked up the price for amateur fishing permits from 25 leva to 50 leva starting next year, and Nikolay Georgiev from the fisheries agency explained the fees have been stuck at 2006 levels while everything else got expensive. The director pointed out that catching one decent carp basically pays for itself since the fish costs around 10 leva per kilo at market, which means anglers get state resources almost free for twelve months with the old pricing.
The agency spent two years updating its whole fee structure with increases between 50 and 100 percent across the board, and nobody complained during public comment periods. Fisheries inspectors just got upgraded rides with sirens and lights so they can pull people over like...
Tsvetan Tsvetanov dropped a massive Facebook post trashing Boyko Borisov for wrecking GERB after he helped launch the whole thing back in the day. The former Interior Minister and founding chairman said Borisov made backroom deals with MRF starting around 2017 despite promising voters they would never work together, and the party has basically morphed into something unrecognizable since 2020.
Tsvetanov called out a bunch of people who supposedly jumped ship because they got betrayed, while conformists without any real contributions took over the leadership spots. He wants Borisov gone as chairman if the party has any shot at being respectable again, and he reminded everyone that Borisov once promised to personally shut down GERB if it...
Kostadin Kostadinov from Vazrazhdane told parliament the government is cooking the books to shove Bulgaria into the eurozone while trashing the lev, and he thinks the current coalition has maybe a few weeks left before it collapses. The party leader claimed massive street protests showed people are sick of oligarch corruption, and the budget getting pulled was criminal, but whatever replaces it will be worse since everything is getting disguised as euro entry prep.
Yavor Bojankov from PP-DB called out Kostadinov for skipping the actual protests where no Russian flags showed up, and he brought up how Tsoncho Ganev struggled to leave one demonstration because protesters clearly hate Vazrazhdane. Petar Petrov from the same party fired...
Workers from the Executive Agency Automobile Administration hit the streets in Burgas to complain about garbage pay and lousy working conditions, and they want a 50 percent salary bump. Milena Dimova from the agency said people doing the exact same job get totally different paychecks depending on random factors, which makes zero sense when everyone has identical responsibilities.
The staff shortage problem is real since Ivelina Videva pointed out that just two inspection teams cannot possibly cover the entire Burgas region. She mentioned putting in 15 years at the agency while feeling completely screwed over by the unequal pay system, and the whole crew wants fairness across the board for matching positions.
Delyan Peevski from DPS-New Beginning told reporters to knock off the ethnic hatred stuff because it only creates more problems down the line, and he made it clear nobody gets to trash his voters or his people. The party leader said power switches hands through elections instead of street chaos, and his crew will back the current government troika as long as the budget actually helps regular folks.
Peevski threw shade at people who were hanging out in his office drinking coffee before suddenly turning against him, and he specifically called out former allies who were eager to sign deals back then. When asked about Atanas Zafirov showing up at his place, Peevski said they just talked about social benefits for citizens since he meets...
Sociologist Kolyo Kolev thinks another massive protest could go down in Bulgaria, but the government cannot handle it without cracking skulls harder next time. He mentioned that vandals always show up to amp things up, and the ruling coalition has internal beef with Borisov basically threatening elections as a power move against Peevski. The legitimacy problem is real since only 20 percent of people voted them in, and public anger finally boiled over into the streets.
Lawyer Petromir Kanchev pointed out how the provocateurs and cops seemed weirdly coordinated, with police sitting back until party headquarters got trashed before stepping in. Social media influencers made protesting look cool and trendy, which got followers hyping each...
Boyko Borisov from GERB said the budget protest actually helped his party since they never liked the original plan anyway, and he thinks the cops handled everything perfectly while pushing back against calls for the Interior Minister to quit. He spent the day after the demonstration talking to friends who showed up, and then pulled the coalition, plus the Prime Minister and Finance Minister, together to hash things out with unions and employers watching.
Borisov split the protest into two camps, where the first group did solid work, but the second bunch revealed what kind of chaotic leadership some people want running things. The vandals came organized, and different police tactics would have caused bloodshed, according to him. He also...
Atanas Bobokov from Ruse says his 18-year-old kid got thrown into pretrial detention after the Sofia protest, and the dad is calling the organizing accusations complete garbage. The teenager goes to some fancy school and got nabbed by himself near a bank where security cameras caught everything, plus he had nothing suspicious on him besides 20 leva in his pocket. Police apparently refused to check his hands for any flammable residue or evidence.
The family claims cops had zero witnesses until Bobokov agreed to appear on TV, and then suddenly two people showed up but still did not mention any container. The uncle, Plamen Bobokov, thinks Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski staged the whole thing with fake provocateurs, and someone warned...
