Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-17-Speech-1-070"
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"en.20100517.14.1-070"2
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"Mr President, on the evening of Thursday 14 May, I was handed in the town of Kardzhali in southern Bulgaria 54 000 signatures collected from citizens who want normal working conditions and strong local government. This petition has been collected from the seven Kardzhali municipalities in just 10 days. People support the fight against corruption at every level of government. However, they are against the strong-arm methods and actions carried out for show, which are used by the executive to relieve courts and the prosecutor’s office of their duties, as well as curtail the authority of local government and repress it.
For example, the Mayor of Kardzhali himself has been investigated 138 times during the last year, 13 times alone for the same project. More than 700 checks have been carried out on the 30 municipalities with DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) mayors in less than a year, whereas municipalities with GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) mayors have been spared such checks. In addition, the provincial governor of Kardzhali did not even allow us to hand in the petition in the actual administrative building and we were forced to meet out in the open. I made a commitment to inform Europe’s institutions about this civil protest."@en1
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