Bulgarian Socialists suspend all 'Continue Change' talks over expelled 70 Russian diplomats
The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and resigned Deputy Prime Minister Cornelia Ninova announced at an open briefing in the National Assembly that BSP cut off all talks with "We continue the change" to form a new government.
As the MIA correspondent from Sofia reported, the decision to expel 70 Russian diplomats from Bulgaria is unprecedented in the Bulgarian diplomatic history, comments Cornelia Ninova.
According to her, this is on the verge of severing diplomatic relations and, according to Cornelia Ninova, it is an absolutely unacceptable act. She announced that such a decision was made by the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov himself. She called on Vice President Iliana Iotova to prove her claim that there was a decision to expel Russian diplomats from the government in Sofia. BSP ministers in the government did not participate in making such a decision, Ninova added.
The Bulgarian Socialists are demanding a closed session of the National Assembly and a hearing by the head of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) on the report he prepared and submitted to the resigned Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.
Cornelia Ninova called on the President to convene an emergency meeting of the National Security Advisory Council, as his statement was extremely worrying that he did not know about such a SANS report and the President could not help but know if he had such information as he appointed the Director of this special service. .
Source: MIA
Russia's two consulates general in Bulgaria closed due to the expulsion of 70 Russian diplomats