Today, in the National Assembly, the full absurdity of the status quo was revealed. While the people in Pleven and the region face a real water crisis, with farmers and families relying on cisterns, the parliament produced a parody of a decision.

Parody against responsibility: the parliament and the water crisis

In the parliament today, there were two decisions. One of the status quo, signed by the eternal majority of Borissov and Peevski, presented with the expertise of Yordan Tsonev, was the familiar recipe: new board, new commission, new paper. As if the crisis with water is a crisis of bodies and stamps, and not of pipes, missing investments and administrative carelessness. As if the thirsty people in Pleven are waiting for a new council to sit, to create a subcommittee, which to prepare a report, and all this while their taps run dry. This is their formula for “solution”: simulation of statehood, which does not bring water, but only folders.

On the other side was the proposal of Krasimira Katincharova from “Velichie”. She put on the table not an empty structure, but an institution that already exists and has normative weight – the High Consultative Council on Water. A body which, by law, must coordinate the policies in the water sector, to propose solutions and to bear responsibility. But a body conveniently left to languish in oblivion, so that today the majority can replace it with the next “board”. Katincharova spoke with concreteness - the council needs to be convened, the minister needs to present a plan, and the parliament needs to exercise control. Not a slogan, but a mechanism.

To this, “Velichie” added a voice from the land itself – the proposals of the farmer from Pleven, Pavel Stoimenov. His projects are not political gymnastics, but a daily need: repairs of the critical network, alternative sources, secure supply for the people and for agriculture. Real, feasible measures, under which stand destinies, crops, and families. This is practice, and it was introduced in the hall as a draft decision.

And what happened? The status quo turned the debate into a farce. The report of the temporary commission, created to establish the causes of the crisis, was not even heard. Instead of a report, grave silence. Instead of responsibility, “abstained”. Thus, the ruling majority chose the most convenient for itself: not to say “yes”, not to say “no”, not to bear guilt and not to take responsibility.

This is how impotent power looks. While Katincharova and PP “Velichie” insist on statehood, the majority opposes it with bureaucratic mockery. While Stoimenov proposes real projects for Pleven, Tsonev proposes a new commission. While the people carry canisters, the parliament carries folders.

And in the end, if Bulgaria is thirsty, it is not because there is no water. But because there are politicians who have been draining the state for three decades, as HPPs drain the rivers.

Pavel Stoimenov, agricultural producer from Pleven, submitted projects for dealing with the crisis: construction and modernisation of facilities for drinking water; measures for repair of the critical water supply network; alternative sources for supply of Pleven and the surrounding settlements.

These are real, feasible steps - proposals coming from a man who feels the consequences of the lack of water daily and cannot afford the luxury of “abstention”.

Krasimira Katincharova: the voice in parliament

The parliamentary group of “Velichie” stood behind these proposals. Krasimira Katincharova presented them as a political platform for action – with clear institutional support: the High Consultative Council on Water. This body has normatively written functions to coordinate, propose and control state policy in the water sector.

“We do not need new boards, but the work of already created councils. We need water, not bureaucratic papers,” Katincharova emphasised.

The farce of the commission and Tsonev

But what did the commission under the “leadership” of Yordan Tsonev-New Beginning do? It did not discuss the report of the temporary commission on the crisis – the parliament deprived its own decision of meaning. Instead of applying the existing mechanisms, the majority created new bodies, which duplicate and blur responsibility. Instead of supporting real projects for Pleven, the deputies voted “abstained”.

This is how managerial impotence looks: to run from responsibility and hide behind neutrality.

Final: the drought is in the state, not only in the taps. While the people in Pleven carry canisters, the parliament carries folders. While the pipes rot, the rulers invent new boards. While the farmers lose crops, Tsonev and the majority lose time.

And if Bulgaria today is thirsty, it is not because there is no water. But because there is no statehood.

And the drought in the statehood has concrete names: Borissov, Peevski, Tsonev – and their whole “abstained”.

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