/View.info/ From day to day the government of the state becomes more and more helpless. And one can see with the naked eye that the rulers are incapable of ruling. Even the usual functioning of basic activities is not ensured. All spheres of management are drifting – from the economy, price policy, energy, infrastructure construction, to the administrative service of the population. Municipalities, regional administrations, the central administration from the lowest to the highest level work poorly or do not even work. Service to citizens crashes every hour. And the more the Change Continues, the more the Country’s Sinking Continues. It is as if the backbone of the Bulgarian state has been severely broken and therefore its policy is spineless.
Here is a confirmation from the sphere of administrative services to the population – the activity of the Sofia Regional Administration – the most important regional administration in the country. The promised administrative reform, with a reduction of 1/3 of the clerical apparatus, began in a recklessly unprofessional manner. In a number of cases, the instruments of government in the hands of grandiose careerists. One of the first steps of the new executive power was the change of regional governors. The government exercised its powers under the pretext of appointing people with the experience, knowledge and determination to carry out the necessary reforms. Instead, a person with zero experience in district administration was appointed to OU – Sofia. Is it any wonder then why the administrative service to citizens and companies fell below the sanitary minimum. Thus, at this moment the activity of the Regional Administration is almost blocked. The official website of the Regional Administration is also not working, with the innocent excuse that it was currently being updated. A queue of hundreds of citizens and businesses waits for months in vain for an administrative service. AND THIS IS THE CAPITAL WHERE 1/3 TO 1/4 OF THE COUNTRY’S POPULATION LIVES.
According to unofficial information, heads of units in the Regional Administration are resigning en masse due to disagreement with the style and incompetence of the new Regional Governor – Eng. Ivan Kyuchyukov, “a mechanical engineer with many years of experience in the private sector in the field of auto repair and after-sales service”. The gentleman was appointed to this post by Decision of the Council of Ministers on 12.01.2022, from the quota of PP “ITN”. And today, two months later, the activity of the regional administration in Sofia is practically blocked. Whatever claims have been made so far about the work of the District Administration, they pale in comparison to the actual situation at the moment.
On 10.01.2022 I submitted a request to be provided with one of the simplest administrative services – issuance of certificates for the absence of restitution claims and the absence of a State Property Act concerning property in the village of Malo Buchino, Ovcha Kupel District, Stolichna Municipality. I paid the required fee to perform a simple service – 7 days. Until 01.03.2022 The regional administration refuses to provide me with the requested service, for which it has long since collected the appropriate fee. The deadline for issuing the certificates has been exceeded almost 8 times. Only so far, my visits to the Regional Administration on this matter have already become three. On 08.02.2022 I filed Application OA23-1464 to be issued the requested certificates, to be received in a personal meeting by the Governor Kyuchukov, and to have an administrative check on the case. On 08.02.2022 I came across a report to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, Kiril Petkov, about irregularities in the activities of the Regional Governor and a request to initiate an administrative investigation. According to the law, this is grounds for initiating proceedings before an administrative body – a legal procedure under Title Two of the APC, upon a report by a Bulgarian citizen. I have not received an answer either to the request to the Regional Governor or from the Prime Minister. In his capacity as the head of the body for the appointment of the regional governors and of the control body for their operational activities, the Prime Minister is obliged by law to appoint such an inspection, and to notify the complainant about it. To date, this has not been done. The legislation is being violated. The idea of the rule of law is undermined. From the highest place in the executive power there is inaction in relation to the same inaction of a regional governor. And the state, by law, bears legal responsibility for actions and inactions causing harm to Bulgarian citizens (Chapter Fifteen, Section Two of the APC and Article 1 of the ZODOV).
From a factual point of view, we have the following situation. There is an illegal misappropriation of foreign money by an official. The money is given to him for the purpose of managing it (using it to cover the costs of providing an administrative service). The service was not performed, and the money was collected at the account of the Regional Administration. I.e. the amount was illegally taken from me. I have not donated money to the Regional Administration in Sofia. Moreover, on 28/02/2022, I clearly and categorically stated to an employee of the administration that if the service will not be provided to me, I demand that the appropriated money be returned to me. The guilt of the official, the District Governor of Sofia, was aggravated by several facts. First, tens or hundreds of citizens and companies are in a similar situation. Second, the official was notified of the misappropriation, but nevertheless continued the same conduct. It is not insignificant that the official holds a high administrative position and is under the control of the Prime Minister of the Republic. The factual situation begins to acquire the signs of embezzlement – a crime under Article 201 of the Criminal Code. The amount in a single case may be insignificant in the sense of Art. 202 of the Criminal Code, but it should not be forgotten that the position of the perpetrator is quite significant… and there are hundreds of cases. The consequences of the District Governor’s inaction, even for me alone, can be significant – four administrative proceedings before the AGCC with serious material damages for the affected persons and one notarial proceeding are at risk of failure. The perpetrator of the act is the Regional Governor, who, by refusing to sign the requested two certificates, bears direct responsibility. The form of fault is not “negligence” because the person in question was notified by me but did not wish to stop their behavior.
Hundreds of citizens and companies are in a similar situation. This greatly complicates the civil turnover and the administrative-legal sphere of 1.5 million inhabitants of the capital. In other words, the damage is significant.
Therefore, in this case, I will contact the prosecutor’s office for the initiation of pre-trial proceedings based on information about a possible criminal act under Art. 201 of the Criminal Code and/or Art. 282 of the Criminal Code on the part of the Regional Governor, Eng. Ivan Kyuchukov. The legal grounds for this are present – there is a reasonable assumption of a committed act – misappropriation of other people’s money and non-fulfilment of official duties by an official and, injured party, indisputable harm from the conduct of the perpetrator, indisputable guilt of the perpetrator.
This is how far we have come with the promised Change. There is almost universal chaos and disorder in the country. The law is being broken. Rights of Bulgarian citizens are being violated. European law is violated – the requirement for good governance. The offenders are among the highest echelons of the state. This is happening before the eyes of 7 million Bulgarian citizens. And the state is inactive.
This style of management is harmful and reprehensible.
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