Monika Panayotova continues the regular meetings with citizens from Sofia’s 24th election region

10/03/10

On the 9th of March, Monika Panayotova met with citizens from Oborishte, which is part of the 24th election region in Sofia, from where she was nominated for a majoritarian candidate during the parliamentary elections in 2009 and elected for a national representative in the 41st National Assembly.

The meeting was organised by Mrs. Mita Georgieva – Coordinator of the Oborishte region and Municipal Councillor from the group of GERB in Sofia’s Municipal Council. This is a continuation to the consecutive meetings with citizens, which Monika Panayotova, as a Member of Parliament, began to conduct in the beginning of the year.

The meeting began with the introduction of Miss Panayotova and her participation in the activity of the National Assembly. There was a highlight on the Foreign Policy and Defence Committee, which she is a member of and the recently accepted Law for Defence and Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria.  Later there were questions regarding the topics being discussed at the moment in plenary hall, and pose a great interest to many people, the Law for Genetically Modified Organisms and the Law for Internet Messages.

Miss Panayotova did not miss to mention the main messages in her election campaign, precisely “Let’s prove, that Bulgaria can work with and for the young” and “Real reform in education”. In order to support the promises with actions she told in short about the campaign, which is conducted at the moment by the initiative of MGERB, the national campaign “SOS – Save the Education Now!” which supports the upcoming reform in higher education and is conducted mutually with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science. She gave this campaign as a precise good example for how reforms should be made in Bulgaria, so they can have a quick perception in the people. In this way, participating directly with opinions and suggestions the citizens really participate in the process of the reform and feel the problems closer.

Other topics, which arose were the reform going in the moment in health care, as well as the scandal between the President Georgi Parvanov and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Simeon Djankov.

The most interesting topic for the gathered citizens, two thirds of which were young people, was the policy of the political party of GERB regarding young people and the activities of MGERB. Here Monika Panayotova mentioned about the now traditional Political Academy of MGERB, the conducted Winter University and two Summer Universities of MGERB, as well as the possibility for young people to gather working experience in the European Parliament, which the MEP’s from GERB offer at the moment.

At the end of the meeting Miss Panayotova promised to visit the Oborishte region again soon, and the youth organisation of GERB was joined by more new members.