I would start with a counter question – why did the chairman of the NHIF have to be replaced days before the end of the National Assembly? Why did we have to repeat what happened with the Audit Chamber? Rosen Zhelyazkov committed gross violations of order, gross violations of the Constitution. We had to give some sign that the rules had to be followed. This is what he said in the show "Face to Face" on BTV former Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, asked why the Speaker of the Parliament Rosen Zhelyazkov was released early the day before the dissolution of the National Assembly.
In a comment on the words of the chairman of the PG of the DPS Delyan Peevski "We have a coalition of poodles. We saw the unlimited cache of the poodle coalition," Denkov said: "Peevski can say a lot of things, but he is the man who sits on the front row of the parliament and is proven to be corrupt under American and British law. Let him answer why he can't travel to the US and the UK. He makes such comments to avoid discussing these issues.
We started the government negotiations with Borisov, but every time we negotiated with Borisov, it turned out that Peevski was there before Borisov. We talked with Peevski, because he had settled down at the table. It's like you invite the neighbor and he comes with two more neighbors. The question was either we form a regular government, or there is an interim government that concludes the contract with "Botash", according to which we pay one million BGN every day. The one who concluded this contract has set extremely unfavorable conditions for Bulgaria, emphasized the former Prime Minister.
We put a program on the table, worked on it until the end of December and managed to get some good things done. After that, when the other side asked to go according to their program, we did not agree and they made up an excuse with Kalin Stoyanov to go to elections. All along, the option to work on the original agreement was on the table – to exchange places only with Maria Gabriel, but they did not want that. Every day it was a huge struggle to push these people to follow this program and by the end of December we were succeeding. I passed Peevski's stupid insinuations and Borisov's lies in order to do my job, commented Nikolay Denkov.
I have always said that as long as we deliver, it makes sense to manage, he added.
The government fell after the changes to the Constitution, when the laws were supposed to be put into effect. It turned out that for Borisov and Peevski it is not OK for the judicial reform to happen, Denkov pointed out.
The idea of the changes for the caretaker government was to prevent the president from doing whatever he wanted, to have a way to control the government. Because the management of one person gives results like the contract with "Botash", he noted.
Regarding Asen Vassilev, the story with customs is absolutely fabricated. If someone claims to be a patronized channel for smuggling, they should prove it, the former prime minister also said.