Balgarianovinite.com “No one paid the protesters – they are genuinely disgusted with you,” MP Ivaylo Mirchev of Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria said in a Facebook post reacting to remarks by GERB leader Boyko Borisov, who suggested that the late-2025 protests which led to the government’s resignation, had been paid for by smuggling businesses.
Borissov said: “Ever since [Continue the Change leader and former Finance Minister Assen] Vassilev ceased being the sole master of the Customs and tax service, over BGN 14 billion more have entered the public purse – in less than a year. Can you imagine how smugglers are rubbing their hands and hoping that [President Rumen] Radev, Assen Vassilev, or some other will come and remove us, who stopped their smuggling business, and how tax and VAT fraudsters are praying and lighting candles in the churches we built, wishing we weren’t here so they could cheat again. And a large part of them financed the protests. They know it themselves, and people in Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria have already started speaking about it,” Borisov said.
Mirchev commented that some time ago, Borisov made the “audacious statement that he fell from power on his own”. “But today he went even further, claiming that the protests were financed by tax and VAT fraudsters,” Mirchev wrote.
“Let me make it clear: people across the country brought you down with unprecedented protests. You did not fall on your own. They removed you because this government, which Borisov boasts about and calls ‘the best,’ was completely subservient to Peevski,” he added.
According to Ivaylo Mirchev, Borisov tried to create some false narrative about what happened, “as he always does”. “This disregard for people’s intelligence has caught up with him – the belief that any nonsense and lies can be sold as truth. They cannot. Only to his inner circle can he peddle this nonsense,” Mirchev commented.
Mirchev also noted several important tasks that Borisov has yet to complete: getting signatures from the GERB parliamentary group for the resignation of the head of the anti-corruption commission, fully restoring machine voting, and removing the National Protection Service security detail for himself and MRF – New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski’s. “For these, he shows no courage,” Mirchev added.
Ivaylo Mirchev emphasized that funds for the sound system and stage construction for the protests were raised via voluntary donations, totaling some tens of thousands of leva for each event. He also noted that after the first protest, Borisov had claimed it was funded by the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association. CC-DB’s Mirchev to Borissov: “No One Paid Protesters, They Are Genuinely Disgusted with You” 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-01-12 22:16:03 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
