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After 8 years, a debate begins again about our largest maritime complex
Sunny Beach is half empty. Due to COVID-19, the hotels in our largest Black Sea resort have barely opened. What will happen next summer?
At the end of this unusual and extreme season, Sunny Beach’s groundbreaking proposal to relocate to the Nessebar Township stunned.
The local parliament approved the idea of the hotelier Venelin Tashev from the “Zora” coalition and
vote
Mayor Nikolay
Dimitrov
do business with
the state
for free acquisition by the municipality of 75% of the shares of Sunny Beach AD – the company that manages the resort’s infrastructure. Now in the joint-stock company the state has 75% of the shares, and the remaining 25% is distributed between legal entities and natural persons.
The places want to put things in order, because the situation is more than absurd: the hoteliers pay their taxes to the Nessebar municipality, but it cannot invest in the resort’s infrastructure, since it is not its owner.
However, whether the Ministry of Tourism will agree to hand over its shares to the municipality for free is another question, but the municipal council’s decision provoked contradictory reactions. Firmly
It is against
the executive
boss of “Sunny
beach ”JSC
Zlatko Dimitrov, GERB leader and city councilor in Nessebar. In 2015, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Nessebar.
It is the transfer of 644,640 square meters from state to municipal hands. This is the territory of the “East” area of Sunny Beach, which was legalized by a state property deed in 1995. Much remains of state land after the 2002-2009 period, in which hoteliers massively purchased land adjacent to their privatized sites. .
These are buildings, land, alleys, sidewalks, plumbing, machinery and equipment for hundreds of millions of levs, for which, according to Dimitrov, there is no guarantee that the municipality will be a better owner.
Sunny Beach AD has the status of a public company and its shares are listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, as 4246 are legal entities and natural persons who are shareholders of the company, and the state stake is 75%.
Shareholders can also be harmed in the event of a transfer of ownership from the state to the municipality with subsequent changes in the capital and the company statutes, according to Zlatko Dimitrov.
“This year, to overcome the negative consequences of the crisis, our public limited company, like the state measures, introduced lower prices for the rights and services provided and reduced the rents of all the leased sites. The question is reasonable, if the company is not influenced by state policy, if there will be a guarantee for such measures in support of the tourism industry, “says Dimitrov.
He added that he wasn’t sure
if the municipality
will be able to
Provide in
your budget
enough
facilities
for infrastructure maintenance.
According to the sender of the idea of crossing Sunny Beach to the municipality of Venelin Tashev, there are no obstacles for this to happen.
“If the state gave the municipality of Burgas the island of Saint Anastasia, why can’t this happen with Sunny Beach?” Commented the hotelier.
For the second time since 2012, he is the promoter of the idea, but only now has he obtained the required majority in the city council, although later he had the support of hoteliers from the Owners Union in Sunny Beach.
Against the idea now voted “against” by GERB,
did not give
consent and of
More party
of the construction entrepreneurs, the Dinevi brothers. The two parties were allies in local elections and continued as opponents on the municipal council.
Eight years ago, Sunny Beach was on the verge of falling into municipal hands. Then the state demanded from the municipality about 13 million BGN to pay in equal installments over 5 years.
However, the deal was sold out after the parking lots, which generate significant income, were removed from the complex’s infrastructure. Now however
is already talking about
free
to transfer
proprietary
“It is time to change, because it can no longer continue like this. We have been in a vicious circle for 20 years. But the state is the owner, it will decide. In my opinion, the most logical decision is for Sunny Beach to move to the municipality from Nessebar, because it collects local taxes and fees. Sunny Beach is a golden hen and something must be done to maximize the benefits for everyone “, Tashev is categorical.
According to him, the complex is in chaos with parking and diversity is everywhere, even in the form of street lamps.
If there was any order
in the spa slots
to return
Adults
German tourists,
who returned in April. The infrastructure also needed to be improved. Venelin Tashev allays concerns that Sunny Beach’s new status will hurt small shareholders.
“What’s the problem? They stay. Nothing will be nationalized or confiscated. It’s just that the management of the complex goes to municipal hands,” says Tashev.
The municipal councilor does not understand the concerns expressed by Zlatko Dimitrov that if the municipality becomes the majority owner, rapid construction will begin.
“And now the municipality regulates this process. If someone wants to build, not even the minister can stop him. The important thing is to follow the detailed development plans and not change them on time; for example, in a certain place the construction of up to two floors is allowed and then it becomes 4 “, explains Tashev.
“I fully support the idea and we will try to implement it with the clear awareness that
will be good for
Sunny beach,
and for the municipality ”,
commented the president of the municipal council of Nessebar Rumen Kulev, who is in the negotiating commission with the state. However, he acknowledges that it will be difficult as there are many pitfalls and complex legal cases to resolve.
Before getting into actual negotiations with the state, Mayor Nikolay Dimitrov also declined to comment.
“I will comment if there is something specific,” he said.
Talks
start yet
next week,
when the first batch of documents and papers will be sent to the Ministry of Tourism.
“We don’t have deadlines, but we want the negotiations to finish as soon as possible,” Rumen Kulev said.
According to the lawyers, one of the complicated cases is how to formulate what streets in Sunny Beach are. Now alleys are being built, allowing them to be private, while the streets can only be state or municipal.
As such, former mayor Nikolay Trifonov was registered in 2002 on the assumption that the alleys do not allow numbering or names, crossing the possibility that the registration of addresses of citizens from the interior of the country influences the elections in Nessebar. However, this has already been abolished with the possibility of exercising the right to vote with temporary registration.
Will the municipality be a better owner of Sunny Beach?
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