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The Obzor spa wants to separate from Nessebar and together with 6 villages to become an independent municipality, announced the organizers of the Initiative Committee. In the last month, signatures have been collected to start the complex administrative procedure.
The settlements are located north of Stara Planina, within a 15 km radius of Obzor. These are the villages of Emona, Banya, Rakovskovo, Priseltsi, Panitsovo and Koznitsa.
“1,300 signatures have been collected, of which 1,250 are valid. There are more than 50% of registered voters and the process can begin”, summed up before the lawyer of Flagman.bg Marin Bozhkov, president of the Board of the Program of Access to Justice, which monitors the legality of the actions of all the parties in this referendum.
An extraordinary meeting of the Nessebar City Council is scheduled for Wednesday, in which the proposal will be put to a vote.
The decision will be consultative and will be reflected in the entire file, after which it will be sent to the regional governor together with the economic and social justification that Obzor can exist as an independent administrative unit. You also need a plan for public order and social activities.
The district governor must review the legality and then, if all procedures are followed, return the case to the Nessebar municipality, which will schedule a referendum within two months, Marin Bozhkov explained.
There is no requirement for the electoral activity of the local referendum, if the approval of the residents of the place is obtained, the future municipality will be structured.
In Obzor they have calculated that their contribution to the municipal budget of Nessebar is 4.5 million BGN, they want to spend their own money and direct them towards priorities. The biggest problem is the remoteness of the municipal center, which for some of the settlements is 45 to 50 km.
The future municipality will have 3,200 inhabitants, which according to Marin Bozhkov is not so unusual. The neighboring municipality of Byala also has 3,200 inhabitants, and in Bulgaria there are 73 municipalities with a population of less than 6,000 people and 21, less than 2,000 people.
Historically, Obzor was the center of a municipality established in 1951 and continued to be so until 1979, when the great administrative reform was implemented, in which the 30 districts were reduced to 8 districts and some municipalities were closed.
In the last 10 years, Obzor residents have raised the problem several times, they wanted to move to the Varna district and the Byala municipality, but now the idea is completely new: for an independent municipality. The last newly created municipality is Sarnitsa, which was separated from Velingrad in 2015. In the Burgas region the example is with Primorsko from the late 90s of the last century.
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