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Bulgaria and the world are facing a difficult and crucial year. We are experiencing a pandemic in which we lost loved ones, President Rumen Radev said in his New Year’s speech. We have gone through a painful adaptation to a new way of life: work, study and communication, added the head of state.
This is what President Radev said in his address to the nation:
My first thought today is for the Bulgarians, who celebrate the holiday alone and in poverty, sad and disappointed. To the thousands of doctors, nurses and paramedics who bore the brunt of our disaster. To the officers on duty for all services on New Year’s Eve. In days of crisis and trial, each of us can feel the joy of good done to others. Those periods happen to each of us and it is important that the strong support the victims with understanding and care, with attention and gesture, with material and human empathy.
In 2020, life reminded us all how much freedom, solidarity, and humanity cost. Bulgaria and the world are painfully reconsidering the illusions of the age of selfishness.
But 2020 was also the year of Bulgaria’s awakening. Thousands of people have declared their will to end lies, anarchy and corruption. In the squares, the Brotherhood of Honorable Persons was born. He who thinks he is gone is confused. The heroes of civic courage are the uncompromising people who for months did not stop defending freedom and the law in the squares, the brave Bulgarians who in small towns were not afraid to go against the local derby, the students who said that Bulgaria should be a European democracy. Those worthy Bulgarians in the institutions, in the court and in the media, who, despite the pressure, remained faithful to the principles and the truth.
The anti-mafia consensus unites millions of honest Bulgarians at home and abroad, and the failure to cope with the pandemic, small business ruin, poverty and widespread lawlessness only confirmed the urgent need. of a radical change.
In 2021 we will go to the polls twice. Your organization must guarantee the health and the right to vote for all Bulgarians.
Any excuse to postpone the machine and remote voting is inadmissible. Our society is already organizing against vote manipulation.
We need leadership. Leadership that will not only lead the country out of the deep health, economic and social crisis and the pandemic of fear, but will also begin to dismantle the vicious governance model; strengthen statehood and the rule of law; to stop thefts; pose education, health, science and culture as a real priority and man as a fundamental value; move boldly towards tomorrow, towards our European future, towards modernization and accelerated growth of the economy and income; restore the authority of the state; to protect
our beautiful nature; establish integrity, knowledge and competence in Bulgarian management.
In courage, will and joint efforts is the key to success.
Our people have survived many trials. Our country has risen more than once for a new life. We have made a brilliant mark on culture, science and sport. More than once we have amazed the world with our gifts. I believe we are about to unleash the creative energy that our talented people carry in their genes and character.
Health and a blessed year to each one of you, dear compatriots!
I wish you a year in which we have the boldness, inspiration and determination to make the change that the hearts of millions of Bulgarians yearn for.
Now is the time!
Happy New Year 2021!
