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The original in Bulgarian – http://www.ekipnews.com/?p=3720

Georgi Parvanov – Bulgarian President, former secret agent in the Communist State Security Services.

It is now the beginning of the sixth issue of the “Bulgarian Christmas”. So far, judging from the report on the official website of the campaign the money raised are 11 662 026 BGN. Most of them were spent for purchase of ambulances and medical equipment.

What I can admit is that when it first same to my mind this idea (around the autumn of 2003) I opened one folder and wrote down “Christmas impossible”… We managed to prove that solidarity is not just exhausted political term but in the Bulgarian reality it can be enriched with real content.

states on the website the president, who is the main initiator and patron of the campaign.

As it happens with most of the things touched by Parvanov “Bulgarian Christmas” turned up into a cynical, impudent and lacking of any human meaning mockery with the Bulgarian people. These people are repeatedly called to donate money for a campaign which only purpose is to show the president as compassionate, painstaking and socially responsible.

And the people donate – very often their last money – after the state, presidential and party sponsors, circles of companies and other predators already collected their earnings via taxes, inflated prices and direct steals from the budget. The last case – president’s comrades and the cheeky steals of the president’s sponsors were the main reason EC to stop financing of 220 million euros for Bulgaria. Just one of the companies very close to the president – Eurofrigo managed by Ludmil Stoikov and Mario Nikolov was asked to return to SAPARD the illegally received 3 million BGN – which amount is very likely to be collected in this year’s campaign.

Therefore to these people – and mostly to their chief Georgi Parvanov – should not be given anything, even on Christmas. They have proven convincingly that any money touched by them vanish immediately. No money, no scrounging. They already had enough.

It is impudent and cynical to ask the people to donate for allegedly plausible cause when the government continuously speaks about the 5 billion BGN surplus. Only with one signature of the Minister of Finance Plamen Oresharski in Bulgarian Christmas can be transferred ten times and even more money than the harassed people manage to collect for five years. And this money to be used for the sick children so their parents not to be asked to beg from the State.

But no. It is better crying mothers and father to kiss president’s hands and to cry on his New Year’s speech. Solidarity – blah, blah.

And one other thing which is also important why no money should be given to the president when he and his comrades ask for them. So far (this is the sixth year) “Bulgarian Christmas” is still not registered under the laws of the country as legal entity. There is no clear information who physically orders the payments and it is not known publicly who are the people in the committee that allocates the funds. For five years there isn’t any single financial report nor that any of the sort have been given to the State auditors and even worse – there is no public information for anything of that kind.

It is clear only one – Parvanov used the coins of the Bulgarians and the suffering sick kids to improve his image.

Don’t give him even a coin. If you have the willingness and the means – give money, but choose independently to whom to donate them – as free citizens in free state.

And leave Parvanov to get money from his sponsors and to donate them. At least they will not refuse him.

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