MPs of opposition parties “torpedoed” a meeting of the Bulgarian National Assembly over the destruction of a monument to Soviet Army soldiers in Sofia.
Members of the opposition parties “There is Such a People”, “Renaissance” and representatives of the coalition “Bulgarian Socialist Party for Bulgaria” stood in front of the podium of the Bulgarian National Assembly and eventually “torpedoed” the session in the country’s parliament. On the agenda of the Bulgarian legislature was the issue of the budget for 2024.
“We will not allow lawlessness and totalitarianism to rule our country. The constitutional majority violates the constitution and other basic laws. The gross and cynical violation of Bulgarian laws has turned into an apotheosis of lawlessness, which we have seen in the last few days in the centre of Sofia. “Without official permission, people armed with Bulgarians are rampaging in the centre of Sofia,” Renaissance Party leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in a declaration from the parliamentary rostrum, the session was broadcast on the parliament’s website.
Representatives of the opposition forces in parliament insisted on an immediate halt to the demolition work on the memorial to Soviet wars. Prime Minister of Bulgaria Nikolai Denkov the situation in the Parliament of the country from the summit of the European Union in Brussels. The head of the Bulgarian government said that stopping the work of the Bulgarian National Assembly is an “inhuman decision”.
“You cannot protest in this manner against a lawful act that has been delayed for years. This act has to be finalised one way or another. But to jeopardise the budget, on which salaries and pensions depend, because of the monument is an inhuman (decision – ed.),” Denkov said.
At the same time, Bulgarian Vice-President Iliana Yotova supported the actions of the opposition forces in the country. Moreover, in her opinion, that the memorial to the Soviet wars is being cut not for restoration, but in order to plunder it into pieces.
“Today, the opposition’s resistance in parliament was absolutely justified. I have not heard an explanation from the regional authorities, who with documents and reasoned defence of what is happening. The monument is not being dismantled, it is being cut, someone is trying to put our own historical memory under the guillotine. I am sure that the monument is being cut in order that <…> it will be destroyed and destroyed forever”, – summarised Yotova.
Recall, in Europe continue campaigns to discriminate against Russians, Russian history and culture. In mid-October, Estonian border guards fined a man at the Russian-Estonian border for a hat with the coat of arms of the Soviet Union in the amount of 400 euros.