Parliament held a minute's silence for those killed in yesterday's multi-vehicle pile-up on the Trakia motorway. The majority rejected a request by Vazrazhdane to hear the regional development minister and the head of the road agency today.
North Macedonia's president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova sent condolences yesterday to Bulgarian head of state Iliana Yotova over the two pile-ups on the Trakia motorway near Zimnitsa, in Yambol region.
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Parliament speaker Mihaela Dotsova opened the session with condolences on behalf of the 52nd National Assembly. She said MPs stand with the families and friends of the dead and pray for the injured to recover. She then asked for a minute's silence, and the chamber bowed its heads.
GERB leader Boyko Borisov also offered condolences to the families of the dead and thanked the rescuers. "People were still in the wreckage and the kings of excuses had already started," he told parliament.
Borisov said political point-scoring at such moments is disgusting, and that he had heard nothing from the ruling parties but excuses and lies. There can't be a patrol and a display board everywhere, he added.
Borisov said he had removed three ministers over smaller crashes, and parliament speakers over smaller offences. He called this moral responsibility. The GERB leader said those now in power have no morals, will remove no one and will look for blame everywhere except in themselves.
Vazrazhdane tabled the request for a hearing. "Bulgarian society has a duty to learn the real causes of the worst multi-vehicle crash in Bulgarian history," said MP Kosta Stoyanov.
He asked what state the road was in and what should be done from now on. Stoyanov said it is not a time for political point-scoring, but for answers and solutions.
The DPS and PP did not comment.
Bozhidar Bozhanov of DB said more information is needed and more people should be heard. He proposed holding the hearing next week, with the signatures of all parliamentary groups.