Only prime minister, president and head of parliament with NSO guards, for Geshev – transport (OBZOR)

Gen. Emil Tonev before the beginning of the sitting PHOTOS: YORDAN SIMEONOV

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“The chief prosecutor must also be removed from the list of protected persons. He enjoys the opportunity for protection under three laws – for the Ministry of Interior, for NGOs and for the protection of endangered persons. We will propose to eliminate this possibility, leaving only the use of specialized transport by NSO “, said Iva Miteva. The bill will be submitted by “There are such people”. Cars of NSO, but not bodyguards will be able to use the other two big in the judiciary – the presidents of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as members of the Constitutional Court. In case of threats against some of them, however, a commission from NSO, SANS and the Ministry of Interior will assess whether they will have personal security.

“We have said many times that the deputy chairmen of the National Assembly and the members of the Council of Ministers should also not use transport from the NSO, as well as the mayor of Sofia. These institutions have their own fleet, and there is one in the parliament. If there is a threat, again with a decision of the commission it will be possible to place security. But not indiscriminately and at any time to use it, “said Miteva before the hearing of Emil Tonev.

However, the proposals do not stop there. The bill “There are such people” will propose that the administration of the presidency also not be able to use transport by NGOs, as it has been for many years. “It seems to me that NSO is not a transport company and the administration’s ride should be in a different order, with other means of transport that all Bulgarian citizens use,” Miteva said. She declared herself one of the victims of this law because she cannot walk or come to work by bicycle, but is obliged to be guarded by the NGO. She has studied the practice around the world, where the prime minister, president and head of parliament are invariably guarded by state guards, and therefore this provision remains, but only for them.

“We do not have the opportunity to give up this security. We can do it after the end of our term at will, which I did immediately after the dissolution of the 45th National Assembly. “Unfortunately, only I have given up the protection of the NGO,” she added. After the meeting, Nikolay Hadjigenov, who also has a bill on NGOs, said that many things became clear from the hearing of Emil Tonev – how the patriarch, for example, used a NSO car since 1964, and former Parliament Speaker Tsveta Karayancheva had state security until July 16 this year It was also clear from Tonev’s words that now 43 of them use NSO security. There are no deputies among them.

The head of the NSO said after the meeting that he had acquainted the deputies with everything that interested them in the work of the service. He pointed out that the Law on NGOs really needs changes, but did not say which ones, on the grounds that the decision is political.

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