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Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, reiterated Saturday his firm conviction that scrapping the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant in the Danube town of Belene, had been the best decision.
Borisov made the statement in an interview for the weekly political talk show of Darik radio, stressing that a referendum on the issue would have been a very complex and impossible to organize procedure of asking people to say yes or no on the NPP plans.
"It does not make any sense to continue circling around something that has started 33 years ago, both sides know that," the PM stressed.
He accused the previous cabinet of the Three-Way Coalition and his predecessor Sergey Stanishev, leader of the opposition left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, of not signing the contract on Belene, and leaving the task of burying it to the next government.
"The softest definition I can use for this project is speculation, because it is actually a crime," Borisov declared.
When asked what the Russians have requested in exchange of agreeing to reduce by 11% the price of natural gas, he stated they have wanted honest and open relations, which his ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, had already established with them.
On Wednesday, the Borisov government decided to give up on the controversial Belene project, terminating the contract with the Russians. The next day, the decision was approved by the Parliament.
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