In the program "From the Day" on BNT, former Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov said that GERB had no other choice but to work with former Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev on the state budget at the time of the assembly.
We were prisoners of the political crisis and of our coalition partners. We are still prisoners of our coalition partners and of the lack of reasonable dialogue in parliament, he said in connection with the disputes around Budget 2026.
We have a problem with the 2020 budget. I want to ask my business colleagues who are raising their voices against some unpopular decisions, where were they then? I suspect society of shortsightedness, and politicians of populism. What is happening today is a result of the political crisis of 2020. The political conversation left the parliament, charlatans invaded there, in the words of the president, Goranov added.
With GERB leader Boyko Borisov, we have made many budgets and they have not come out this way. This budget does not belong to GERB, but to this government, which was formed with the support of the BSP-United Left and "There is such a people", with the added votes of the DPS-New Beginning. We, despite being the largest party, are burdened with bearing all the responsibility. Despite being the largest party, we have half the votes needed to form a government, the former Finance Minister noted.
The budget is communication and public relations that do not arise once, but have been a process since 2020. The political crisis has not passed and will pass when the presidential elections are over. The president's behavior is unsystematic, populist and hinders normal political dialogue in the country. If the current majority were not there, we would not be talking about a budget at all, because there would be none, added Vladislav Goranov.
This is a budget that cannot allow anything right to be supported. It is the smallest common multiple of possible policies that can find support in parliament. When reason leaves the political terrain and the political class becomes mainly made up of populist players, it is not easy to return reason. This may not be the best governance, but it is the only possible one that the state can produce, he emphasized.
Goranov also commented that he suspects that Bulgaria has people in politics who rely on the "Magnitsky" law to be very significant in our country, in order to settle their political scores with his help.
These thinkers and analysts who put Peevski in "Magnitsky" made a big mistake, because thanks to these sanctions he is what he is today, said the former Minister of Finance, who is also sanctioned under American law.