2024-07-03 03:58:42
“With a call personally signed by the mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, the undertaking to revive the Memorial of the Sofia Iron Division is stopped. It has been lengthy awaited by the heirs of those that died for the Liberation and unification of Bulgaria. Generations of Bulgarians are ready for the restoration of our reminiscence, destroyed by the rootless communists, whose successors we see within the administration of our capital at present. That is insulting!”
That is acknowledged within the place of the municipal councilors from GERB-SDS on the event of the scandalous info that the mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, has stopped the undertaking for the development of the Memorial.
The place recollects that the process for the restoration of the Memorial was initiated by the chief of GERB Boyko Borisov by means of the Government Committee of the occasion and subsequently supported unanimously by the municipal councilors of GERB.
What’s the chronology: In 2014, the Metropolitan Municipal Council (SOC) determined to revive the Memorial and dismantle the remaining figures from the socialist monument. In 2017, the bronze lion, a part of the memorial, throughout the time of the “Borisov” cupboard 3, was restored and inaugurated with a ceremony. In 2023, the general public dialogue started, organized by an knowledgeable council, together with representatives {of professional} organizations, and subsequently the undertaking was coordinated with all state establishments. A month in the past, the winner of the competitors was chosen. “A month later, Vasil Terziev stopped the undertaking with an absurd and insulting argument, damaging the title of our ancestors,” the GERB-SDS place additionally states. The municipal councilors emphasize that they’re drastically outraged by the arguments for the refusal of the mayor of Sofia, stressing with bewilderment what Vasil Terziev himself wrote:
“In fashionable instances, the park of the Nationwide Palace of Tradition is a longtime place for social contacts of largely younger folks and a spot for festivals and exhibitions. There may be additionally a youngsters’s nook and an open-air cinema close by. All these actions are in sharp dissonance with the exhibition of the memorial within the type by which was constructed. The dearth of an sufficient match into the present city surroundings violates its sanctity. On this regard, it’s proposed to rethink the place the place a worthy memorial could be erected with a brand new studying, the place celebrations could be held and a real tribute could be paid. and away from the noise of town, the place we could be silent and thank these hundreds of victims who gave their lives for us.”
“The heirs of the DS and the communists clearly need to push the monument, a logo of the heroic deeds of the First and Sixth Infantry Regiments, into some distant and darkish nook, as they’ve completed for years, killing and oppressing the navy, the intelligentsia and the Bulgarian spirit,” they write. even from GERB-SDS.
The municipal councilors demand the resignation of the mayor of Sofia from the PPDBSS on the grounds that in solely 9 months in energy, Vasil Terziev makes blunder after blunder.
“You stopped the cash of the nurses, you wager on fraudulent regional mayors, you reorganized the middle of the capital with out public dialogue – this was not sufficient for you and now you’re making enjoyable of the reminiscence of all recognized and unknown fighters who gave their lives for Bulgaria!”
The municipal councilors from GERB-SDS conclude their place, by means of which they categorically oppose the actions of the mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, with the phrases: “We are going to take all the required measures so as to not enable the purple heirs to erase our reminiscence!”