Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev wrote a post on Facebook where he criticized previous governments who have claimed to have “built” Bulgaria’s motorways for doing so poorly without proper quality control.
Those who spent two decades boasting about motorway construction while leaving behind roads with narrow lanes and compromised quality have neither the moral nor the political right to criticize today, Demerdzhiev said.
He said many had attempted to politicize the tragedy on Trakia Motorway.
GERB called for the resignation of the Prime Minister and government ministers following the tragedy. GERB’s Daniel Mitov said that, on a day when the government should have shown humility, those in power had once again begun shifting responsibility for the problems of their own administration onto previous governments. Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) MP Kalin Stoyanov also demanded immediate resignations.
Earlier on Tuesday, two multiple-vehicle collisions occurred in dense fog on both carriageways of Trakia Motorway near Yambol. A total of 86 vehicles were involved in the accidents, which claimed 11 lives and left 51 people hospitalized, according to the Health Ministry.
Demerdzhiev described Bulgaria’s national road network as more than just asphalt, calling it a reflection of a legacy of corruption.
He accused those responsible for past road construction and maintenance of having compromised road safety through the misuse of public funds and said they would eventually be held accountable before the law.
The Interior Minister said the crashes had been triggered by a sudden and severe deterioration in weather conditions, with dense ground-level fog reducing visibility to a critical 10 metres within minutes.
He described the phenomenon as one that had effectively neutralized drivers’ normal ability to react.
Demerdzhiev nevertheless pointed to what he described as systemic failures in road safety infrastructure.
He criticized the failure over many years to establish an effective early-warning system using the electronic signs associated with Bulgaria’s toll collection system. He also noted the absence of a real-time connection between toll cameras and traffic police that would allow information about road conditions to be transmitted promptly.
According to the Minister, infrastructure intended to protect lives had become a symbol of negligence, while funds allocated for safety and modernization had been diverted and misappropriated.
Demerdzhiev said the Interior Ministry had been working for months to accelerate the introduction of active warning systems and establish direct connectivity between the toll system and the Traffic Police.
Work was also under way to install electronic information boards on toll system gantries to warn drivers of various road hazards, he added.
The Minister stressed that the safety of Bulgarian citizens must not be compromised by negligence or the misuse of public resources.
Demerdzhiev again expressed condolences to the families of the victims and pledged to continue efforts to ensure justice and legal accountability for anyone who had contributed to the current condition of Bulgaria’s roads.

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