Iva Miteva: The third term should be for “Stand up.BG! We are coming!”, If there are elections – two in one in November – Bulgaria

The presidential elections will be in November and from the point of view of savings it is better to be two in one, if a regular government is not formed, said today in Razgrad the Speaker of the Parliament Iva Miteva. By law, the election must take place no earlier than three months and no later than two months before the end of the term of the current head of state (January 22, 2021), ie. between October 22 and November 22. The issue was discussed during a parliamentary council last Tuesday, but there was no unanimity on the date at the time.

Regarding who will be given the third term, she said that in her opinion it would be better to get it to the parliamentary group of “Stand up BG! We are coming!”. After the second term for forming a government returned unfulfilled to him, President Rumen Radev has a maximum of seven days – until the morning of August 27, to assign a political formation of his choice in the 46th parliament to try to run for office.

“The budget update is being seriously and thoroughly discussed and will go to the first and second voting on a schedule,” Miteva said. It was approved at a government meeting in late July, and since then the prime minister, cabinet representatives and President Rumen Radev have consistently demanded its adoption by parliament, with Radev even saying the budget debate is a matter of national security.

“Another question is whether the budget will be adopted with these parameters, with which it was submitted, because both we and our colleagues from Democratic Bulgaria and BSP have obstructions in terms of individual parameters,” Miteva commented. “That is why the ministers have prepared an updated picture, they have presented new information and new data to the Presidential Advisory Council, so everything will be taken into account, working hard on this issue,” Miteva added. According to her, the parliament has started to work well, there is a union around some parameters, so she is hopeful that the update will happen.

The recalculation of pensions should also happen, but definitely not in the way it was paid by the BSP, Miteva believes. According to her, in the recalculation, all retirees should receive an increase, not just a certain number of them.

The BSP proposes that from October 1 the pensions be recalculated with the insurance income for 2018, and this will be done with the pensions granted until the end of 2018. Such a recalculation will leave over 915 thousand people (or 44% of all pensioners) without increase , said during the parliamentary control at the end of July the Minister of Social Affairs Galab Donev. “These are 915 thousand reasons for us to propose that the pensions be updated by raising the length of service to 1.35 together with an increase in the minimum and maximum pensions,” Donev explained at the time.

The Speaker of Parliament pointed out that what he did not accept was populism. “Yes, it is very nice to promise a lot of money, but you have to see the real picture,” she said. That is why her call and request to the politicians – to the parliament, to the president and to the Council of Ministers – is to stop populism and start talking about the real actions that need to be taken.

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