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The MRF has big plans for its future. The movement wants to participate in the management and trusts the Green Deal. And as we know, Ahmed Dogan has long been interested in green energy. By Emilia Milcheva.
At the 10th National Conference of the MRF, in which the re-elected leader Mustafa Karadayi wanted to participate in the government, no Bulgarian politician welcomed the party. The online forum was congratulated by Turkey’s political leaders, led by President Erdogan, prominent European liberals whose political family the MRF belongs to, and a single diplomat, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan. The difference with the party forum of 4 years ago, when the envoys of BSP, ABV, NMSS, People’s Union, as well as the leader of KT “Support” Dr. Konstantin Trenchev, read the speeches, is obvious. Has the MRF become more toxic than in 2016?
What Karaday actually said
In his speech, the new leader, who will lead the MRF until December 2023, actually made a much bigger request: to participate in the Green Deal. Much of Karaday’s speech was devoted to the “hydrogen revolution in the digital age” and a growth strategy based on the European Green Deal. He overcame the last electoral failures of the MRF and the only best performance in the local elections of 2019, where the Movement won 47 mayors of municipalities compared to the previous 40. He criticized the GERB for “nationalisms and populisms” and the politics of division and opposition, accompanied by hate speech, arrogance and aggression. He pointed out the “lack of reforms”, the “health crisis”, the general distrust in the government and the imminent destabilization in the country …
Then the leader of the third political force in the 44th National Assembly spoke about the new industrial revolution. It appears that the MRF has thoroughly studied the European Green Deal, its investment mechanisms and planned financing. Brussels has decarbonisation plans to become an engine for the recovery of the European economies affected by the Kovid-19 crisis. The MRF strongly supports them.
MRF clings to “green”
In the name of this goal, in 2050 for Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent, Bulgaria will receive almost € 12 billion to transition to a cleaner economy. One of the three pillars of the Just Transition Fund is the InvestEU program, which will finance private projects in the field of green technologies, and the Public Sector Loan Service. Through them, Bulgaria can access 4.5 billion euros. Part of these funds will go towards new RES capabilities, a business in which MRF circles have long-term investments and interests since the time of the triple coalition, when there was a boom in RES on Bulgarian rivers and dams. In November, the European Commission presented a strategy for the development of coastal renewables, according to which by 2030 they should go from the current 12 gigawatts to at least 60. The document identifies the Black Sea as an area with enormous potential for wind platforms marine. .
For two years now, the honorary president of the MRF, Ahmed Dogan, has owned the second largest TPP in Bulgaria and the Balkans: the TPP Varna, located on Lake Varna, connected to the Black Sea. TPP Varna has a chance to benefit from the Green Deal, although the previous owner of the TPP claimed that half of its six units run on gas rather than coal. Despite these assurances, Greenpeace ranked it 140th on the list of the world’s largest sulfur dioxide pollutants. After receiving tens of millions from the state for a “cold reserve”, this year TPP “Varna” was “excluded” from the plan – by order of Prime Minister Borissov. The green deal is an opportunity for its owner, Ahmed Dogan, to earn again with his investment, acquired for BGN 3,500.
For some long-term interests
And Dogan’s interests in green energy go back a long way. The business of the Helios Solar company, registered ten years ago, are photovoltaic plants, wind farms and their exploitation, production and sale of energy from renewable sources and others. Through Helios Solar, the land in Rosenets Park was purchased and Helios Solar built the summer residence where Dogan lives, also on the Black Sea coast. What prevents, for example, generating electricity from the wind there, next to the greenhouses of organic vegetables of the honorary president …
In her speech, Karaday listed several MRF ideas to achieve the goals of the Green Deal, including the “introduction of cleaner, cheaper and healthier forms of public and private transportation.” The trucking business is also no stranger to the MRF.
The MRF has always had a gift and a strategy for monetizing politics. A few years before Bulgaria became a member of the EU, Ahmed Dogan was the first to speak about the need for trained personnel to prepare good projects for EU funding. His foresight was reinforced by the monopoly established by the MRF over the key institutions for the allocation of EU funds. Now that Bulgaria is lagging behind in the EU in terms of plans for the Green Deal, the MRF is again ahead of everyone with the strategic objectives announced.
Dogan and Erdogan
Addressing forum delegates, Dogan cautioned: “But remember: to be on an equal footing with other political forces, you must be at least one step (but no more) ahead of them in analyzing, targeting and the reform of the world we live in. If overtaking others is unbearable for them, then we will become a collective image of the enemy for all. His words are read by Ilhan Kyuchyuk MEP, one of the prominent politicians of the MRF, in whom great hopes are placed In the previous forum, Dogan had entrusted his address to another MEP: Filiz Hyusmenova.
Surprisingly, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also joined with a video greeting. In it, he did not personally address anyone from the MRF, but only called the Prime Minister absent from the conference: “We see that, under the chairmanship of my dear friend Boyko Borissov, Bulgaria is successfully tackling the crisis caused by the pandemic.” . Friends of my friends are my friends too: this is probably the key to Erdogan’s appearance after Ankara banned Dogan and Delyan Peevski from entering Turkey in 2016. The reason: the Russian fighter plane shot down in November 2015, the subsequent defense of the Turkish actions by the then leader of the MRF Lyutvi Mestan and his immediate expulsion from the MRF.
But there is another reason for Erdogan’s cordial greetings. And it is the activity of the MRF in defense of the interests of Azerbaijan after the renewed military conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. Recently in Baku, the President of Turkey celebrated the “glorious victory” together with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. At the online conference, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, Nargiz Gurbanova, highlighted the merits of the MRF in her speech: “The members of the MRF have always supported the Azerbaijani voice of truth both in Bulgaria and in the European institutions. position in the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE ”. Ilhan Kyuchyuk is one of these activists.
At the forum, Ahmed Dogan described the MRF as a “political model” and expressed confidence that the party has a “very interesting future” ahead of it. Maybe green.
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