Dragomir Stoynev: GERB’s political fault is that it turned us into an energy-dependent country – 2024-09-17 23:11:30

/ world today news/ The failure with “Belene” and all the consequences are the result of the management weakness of GERB. They have failed in the management of strategic energy projects and are leading Bulgaria to energy dependence.

Now they are quoting invoices, contracts, protocols, they even reached the clerks in order to throw their political blame on someone else. I can also cite BEH protocols from early 2013 allowing payments, albeit renegotiated. However, the relevant authorities deal with documents, let’s let them do their job.

The work of the ministers is different – ​​to exercise control and make policy. I took office as Minister on May 29, 2013. In June 2013, I fired the entire BEH Board of Directors after realizing that the process of terminating relations with the contractor company was completely stalled. Then the payments stopped. I followed the rules and complied as a minister with a decision of the Council of Ministers and the National Assembly against which I had voted as an MP from the BSP. They could not even do that – to fulfill administratively and legally, the political decision to stop “Belene”.

Minister Petkova is right, there is no way a minister can stand at the door of NEK and stalk invoices, but a minister can control BEH. I did exactly that – I stopped the process and announced it publicly at a press conference, after which the prosecutor’s office also self-referred.

With “Belene” they created a series of crises – entering arbitration and losing it, an administrative quagmire with the termination of the project, which is now the subject of an investigation. Lawyers from White & Case advised not to terminate contracts. And why did we even get to White & Case? Due to the suspension of the project.

Losses of public money due to arbitration and procedural errors are a fact. Even more terrible will be the future losses for the country, if this management without character continues, which buried 3 strategic energy projects.