At an extraordinary press conference held at the Bulgarian News Agency’s regional office in Pazardzhik, leading figures of the political party Velichie delivered a stark assessment of Bulgaria’s electoral climate, framing the deployment of a full-scale international observation mission by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as an unmistakable sign of systemic democratic distress.

An official letter has been received in the correspondence of the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Prof. Yuliana Mateeva, and it's coming from an anonymous prosecutor at the Blagoevgrad District Prosecutor's Office, also addressed to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, and the Inspectorate of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

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.