"The party doesn't want elections. We acted responsibly and formed a government. This is the fifth government we've put together. Each one is more and more complicated. The assembly was one of the most complicated. Back then, we were content with PP and DB. Back then, they wanted to retire me, but we got the youngest retired prime minister - Kiril Petkov. Assen Vassilev retired them and Lena very quickly. Then they brought in the MRF." This was what GERB leader Boyko Borisov said during a meeting of the party's Executive Committee with the regional coordinators, quoted by novini.bg.
And he returned to the "assembly" again: "I wanted Gen. Atanasov to be the head of SANS because I trusted him. Kiril Petkov came to me and Peevski and said: 'No, in no case Gen. Atanasov."
The PP-DB party talked about the MRF and Delyan Peevski, about the "changed" and "cool" man. I will never forget when we sat in the special room with Kiril Petkov and Delyan Peevski to have a conversation with Zelensky. Didn't they know who was at that table then, Borisov revealed.
"You see a few weeks ago what a storm there was with the Sofia trash - "scum", "mafia". And now, whoops - there's no such topic on television. The "scum" and "mafia" have already disappeared. They're gone. "Active measure", as the State Security used to do. Vasil Terziev's grandfather was the best at this", said the GERB leader.
We need to hold a meeting with "New Beginning", said the GERB leader.
"I really hope that the PP and DB, which declare a Euro-Atlantic orientation, will say that they are ready to meet and talk and support the government on certain topics, to ensure a majority. No. They came out and said all sorts of nonsense, but nothing that would actually solve the problem."
"Mitov saved his skin, the director of the Pazardzhik Regional Directorate of Internal Affairs has been removed and an inspection has been ordered", the GERB leader announced.
"I asked Mr. Zhelyazkov to go and meet with the ITN and the BSP, who have signed a cordon against Peevski, to tell them that I can tolerate them talking as much as they want about me and Delyan Peevski. I have known him for 20 years and I know that when I ask him for something, I can count on him. And he listens to me."
And he added that a meeting should be held with "New Beginning". "Peevski should be spoken to straight in the eye. The rest, who want or don't want this to happen, should give another option. I don't have another. I wanted PP and DB to propose something. They don't propose. Or something is done within the parliament, you choose a majority, with that majority you say which budget project will be supported, and if then we have "Yes" for the budget, if we agree with the other colleagues, we act", he shared.
"If PP-DB had said yesterday that they were ready to support, they said exactly the opposite. They didn't say the second option either, if we don't make a quadruple coalition with MRF–New Beginnings, they said they would make a coalition – with "Vazrazhdane", MECH and "Velicie". These are the only options, otherwise we'll have elections in February in the winter," Boyko Borisov was categorical.
DB are the most interesting to me. They give ideas for the budget, and for 4 years they raised their hand and supported the budgets and loans of Assen Vassilev, he believes.