"I am of the principle - if I cannot be effective with my experience and advice, there is no reason to stand and build up expectations that I will deal with all the problems. I take responsibility where I can actually fulfill my commitments. Where my experience and advice are not used, there is no need to stand".
Meglena Plugchieva, the former advisor to Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, commented this to BNT.
According to her, due to the political situation, Bulgaria looks extremely bad in Europe - some countries ignore us, and others do not know how to react.
She personally recommended Glavchev to choose a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because in the current situation this would be the best working solution.
"I can only wish strength and success to Mr. Glavchev - this is a Herculean task.
Plugchieva also refused to take over the ministry - the reason is the principle that the caretaker government is an expert.
"The caretaker government's request was to be from politically neutral experts. I have always been part of the political quota of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and therefore I thought that it was proper to really observe the principle away from any political coloring. In this situation, it would have been good to have a career diplomat at the helm, with several mandates, and not a consul or an ambassadorial mandate.
During the administration of the PP-DB, an impression was created that anyone can become a minister, I do not share this suggestion in society, even more so with regard to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commented Plugchieva. She defined the latest decisions of the service cabinet as "firefighters".
"At the moment, a fire is being extinguished at the power plant, but it has been postponed for a year because it is included in the Recovery Plan. With the farmers, in order to look for an opportunity to pay the Ukrainian aid - there was not a single lev in the budget, which remained a legacy of PP-DB and with the support of GERB and DPS. Funds from co-financing of European projects had to be urgently sought in order to satisfy the demands of the farmers.