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When I said earlier this year that an authoritarian regime was being built in Bulgaria, my colleagues looked at me in surprise, because they were used to talking only about Poland and Hungary. Not much attention was paid to Bulgaria, probably due to Borissov’s behavior in Brussels, the so-called “yes man”, who always agrees. This was shared in an interview with the German media “Deutsche Welle” Elena Yoncheva, a deputy of the group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, said the press office of the MEP.
Elena Yoncheva is the promoter of the resolution on the rule of law in Bulgaria, adopted by deputies in Brussels on 8 October. In May, he invited Juan Fernando López Aguilar, president of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE), and colleagues to a meeting to work on the document.
“The resolution says that the prime minister has consistently and systematically removed our country from the European Union in the last ten years. This is a resolution on the rule of law, not a specific case of trampling the law. it is a constant violation of the rule of law in a member state of the European Union. Both the left and the liberal forces supported this resolution. The EPP and the extreme right defended Borissov without principles and in the name of power, “Elena Yoncheva told Deutsche Welle.
According to her, raising the issue of the so-called An Istanbul convention by the ruling party, the nationalists and some representatives of the BSP is a distraction from a non-existent problem. “The issue of the Istanbul Convention is closed because there is a decision of the Constitutional Court,” said the MEP. According to Yoncheva, there is no problem with the “Macedonian minority”; such text in the resolution does not exist.
“To get rid of this authoritarian model of government, we need a strong opposition. And there is no such in Bulgaria,” says Elena Yoncheva. When GERB falls, the Socialists do not earn the public’s trust. “Ms. Ninova has the same qualification as Mr. Borissov. We cannot defeat this regime or future populist formations if Bulgaria does not have strong opposition, from the left and the right,” commented the MEP. He defines himself as from left and does not differ from BSP.
Now Elena Yoncheva, as rapporteur for the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, is working on a resolution on freedom of the press. “I have several proposals that I hope will be accepted. One is that the funds that the government allocates for information campaigns under the EU programs should not go through the respective governments, because in this way obedient media are created. We suggest that there be a fund for investigative journalism, which is very expensive, “he told Deutsche Welle. “Never in the democratic history of Bulgaria has there been such a crushing of the media as under the GERB government. When you crush the media, you crush the whole society,” Elena Yoncheva commented.
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