President meets protesting energy workers

At a meeting with the protesting energy workers on April 25, President Rumen Radev urged the Parliament to vote down the liberalisation of the electricity market, even if the motives of the Head of State's veto, which he imposed last year, had to be used.

Miners and energy workers protest in the centre of Sofia

The President said he stood by the energy workers' demands and insisted on preserving Bulgaria's energy autonomy. He added that there is currently no adopted strategy, although there is one drafted by a previous caretaker cabinet of Gulub Donev.

Radev said that before the EU Council he has always defended not to be pressured to give up basic capacities before there are technical solutions for storing RES, as well as to abolish the carbon emission quotas or at least to reduce them. Only the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary supported it then.

Only coal gave autonomy, he said, and hydropower, of course, but they had a small share.

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