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Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Petar Korumbashev has reminded that GERB . Photo by BGNES
The left-wing oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has slammed ruling centrist-right GERB's reaction to the recent tragic floods in the country.
During a press conference on Thursday, key BSP PM Petar Kurumbashev reminded that GERB wrote a declaration attacking former Minister of Disasters and Emergency Situations, Emel Etem, in similar circumstances back in 2007.
Etem was a member of the three-way coalition's government (2005-2009), headed by BSP and including the Movement for Stability and Prosperity, as well as her ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
In June 2007, torrential rains caused floods in Bulgaria, prompting GERB to create their declaration.
"Minister Emel Etem's criminal omission caused whole regions to drown," GERB's 2007 declaration said, asking whether her Ministry was informed about the condition of all hydrotechnical facilities and whether there was an early alert system in place.
On Thursday, Kurumbashev reminded that there were no victims in June 2007.
"Who is in Emel Etem's position now and should he or she resign?" the leftist lawmaker rhetorically asked, referring to the flood that was caused by a dam failure on Monday and claimed 8 lives in the southern village of Biser.
The Ministry of Disasters and Emergency Situations has not existed since GERB took over in 2009.
In August 2007, massive floods swept northeastern Bulgaria, claiming the lives of eight people and damaging thousands of homes in the worst-hit town of Tsar Kaloyan.
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