Bulgarian Socialist MEP Iliyana Yotva has suggested that the Chief Prosecutor should initiate a self-referral and ban outgoing Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Djankov from leaving the country until the financial situation of the country becomes clear.

"I call on Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov to initiate a self-referral and keep Simeon Djankov on Bulgarian territory until the budget is implemented. We need to see what the situation in the country actually is because I am not convinced that we have BGN 2 B for hospitals. The budget may prove to be virtual," Yotova said Tuesday in an interview for bTV.

Yotva, MEP from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), claimed that Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev had made a mistake by failing to invite representatives of protesters apart from political parties to the Tuesday sitting of the Consultative Council on National Security.

"We will instead hear an oral report of (outgoing Interior Minister) Tsvetan Tsvetanov on how public order in the country is secured" Yotova said.

She argued that the caretaker government was supposed to fix invoices issued by power distributors, prepare an analysis of the financial situation of the country in view of the depleted fiscal reserve, and prepare the elections.

The Bulgarian center-right government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov resigned last week in response to mass protests against high electricity bills and monopoly power utilities.

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