"We Continue the Change" (PP) is launching a petition to defend the rights of personal assistants, over planned changes to the Personal Assistance Act. PP MP Venko Sabrutev told reporters in the parliament lobby.
Sabrutev said the latest bill from the governing parties also hits a second group: parents of people with disabilities. In the campaign, Rumen Radev promised a fight against the oligarchy, but instead the blow falls on children, young families and working people, the MP said.
"It turns out the oligarchy is children, young families and working people, not the people with public procurement contracts who make society poor," he said.
The biggest problem, Sabrutev said, is that the governing parties are going after ordinary people instead of the oligarchs.
PP leader Asen Vasilev said Bulgargaz has asked for another gas price rise of 14% from December. He said it will weigh on business, on heating prices in Sofia, on greenhouses and on the whole food chain.
With fuel prices rising, the budget has no adequate steps and no money for an anti-crisis plan, Vasilev said. He called the "4% inflation next year written into the budget framework absolute science fiction". Vasilev expects inflation to be very high and people to get even poorer.
Some worrying things have happened in parliament and outside it, the PP leader added.
Vasilev said the governing parties promised to rewrite the rules on home-made brandy and did so, but not fully. The law still reads: "the holding, offering and sale of brandy in places and premises linked to business activity is banned". In the budget committee, PP had pushed to drop "holding" and "offering" so that people would not break the law.