Vazrazhdane has asked the cabinet to send parliament a joint report from the interior ministry, the regional ministry and the Road Infrastructure Agency on the rise in road deaths and injuries. The party also wants urgent steps, with named officials and deadlines. MP Petar Petrov read the statement from the rostrum.
It follows the latest interior ministry figures: 394 people died on the roads between 1 January and 15 October, 57 more than a year earlier. Another 6,811 were injured, 109 more.
Petrov said Bulgaria had the highest road death rate in the EU in 2025, at 71 deaths per million people. That is 65% above the EU average.
Vazrazhdane says the regional ministry must say publicly what it is doing to make dangerous stretches of national roads safer before winter. The party also wants figures on delayed repairs, price indexation and penalties imposed under contracts, and regular government reports to the public.
Where are the reports on road markings, surfaces, drainage, signs and safety barriers, Petrov asked. He said the regional development minister has not given him the report he requested on the work of Avtomagistrali, although the deadline under parliament's rules passed 10 days ago.
"If you ask for a guardrail certificate, you get a certificate from the minister saying you are taking part in a political attack," the MP said. He likened the minister's claims to a 10km tailback in front of the Vitinya tunnel.
Parliament passed laws a year ago that raised fines and brought in average-speed checks on national roads and motorways. Petrov said that, with the backing of the current government too, they have become a way to raise money. He said fine revenue is down by €11m over the year, or 20%, and 875,000 penalty notices have not been delivered. According to interior ministry data, average-speed checks caught 78,000 violations in a year, and no penalty notice was issued for 34,000 of them.
Vazrazhdane has repeatedly asked for data on how well the fines and average-speed checks work. The party says the answers show serious problems, including that foreign drivers face no real punishment once a violation is recorded. It claims average-speed checks serve "only as a piggy bank" and to fine "working Bulgarians". Speed checks are needed, Vazrazhdane adds, but their results must be backed by data that can be checked.
Petrov says the regional ministry and the road agency are both responsible for road statistics, and in his view they have no visible results and work "in complete secrecy". Blame, he says, always falls on drivers who break the rules and never on those who must maintain the road. The state, the statement says, must provide infrastructure that lowers the risk of crashes and the effects of human error.
The MP also spoke about the victims: lives cut short, children left without parents, parents who buried their children, and thousands of people facing long recoveries and lasting effects.
Vazrazhdane says Rumen Radev's government pays attention to upward indexation of construction contracts and finds the capacity to change price methods, but gives no convincing public report on safety and deadlines. Vignette prices have risen by 30%, and the minister explained this by saying the road network cannot cope with the traffic and there is not enough money.