Early vote or cabinet reshuffle? Are new players expected on the political scene? Are you clear about what lies ahead for the state after what we heard on Friday? The topic was commented on in the program “Wake up” on NOVA by Angel Dzhambazki from VMRO, journalist and former MP Alexander Simov and Petar Moskov, co-chair of “Right Union Blue Bulgaria”.
“It is clear to me what should not happen. It is unacceptable and wrong for the work of the Council of Ministers and the National Assembly to be held hostage to partial local elections. The Bulgarian people cannot pay because some local structure somewhere did not do well. As difficult as it is, the way out of this situation was early elections. This was also the request of the chairman of GERB. If this does not happen in the way it should happen, in my opinion, greater damage is ahead and this situation will have a potential great opportunity for fair protests”, said Angel Dzambazki.
“When this minority government was being formed, the requests were huge that “DPS-New Beginning” would never be part of it. One of the parties said that if it felt only “the urge” to such participation, it would leave. Others entered the National Assembly with slogans against “New Beginning”. If now they make it so that ”New Beginning” officially to be part of the government, this will be a fraud on the voters of at least two of the political parties that are part of this government and it will be a substitution of the vote”, said Dzambazki.
„The main question is how does the state function? And let me say that GERB's request from that day makes sense”, said Petar Moskov, co-chairman of „Right Union Blue Bulgaria”.
„Borisov is right about one thing: when there is a coalition government, it must have a common program, it must be clear how it generally sees the problems in each sector and what common solutions have been developed. And regardless of which party the respective ministry has fallen to, the respective minister must implement the policy around which the majority has united. With this majority, such a thing is missing.
Do you know that the National Health Insurance Fund is bankrupt, doctors are protesting, patients are suffering, elderly and sick people are dying in “hospitals of horrors”. Does anyone know what the policies and decisions of this majority are? No. The National Social Security Fund is bankrupt. It no longer matters how much we contribute to pensions, because we get the same thing. Salaries in most sectors are no longer a function of how much and how you work, but are determined automatically – through administrative wage increases.
Does anyone know what the policies of the majority are? No. Some people sell electricity for 600 leva, while the “Maritsi” and the NPP can sell it for 100. Our children are divided into those with bare asses and a tattooed rainbow and those with black tracksuits and shaved heads. Does anyone know what the majority policy is that the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture or the Ministry of Interior are implementing? No. They don't. And that's why Borisov's request is correct in principle.
If this request by GERB leads to society receiving a solution to these issues, then that's good. If it simply leads to a more stable horizon of doing nothing, of party staffing in ministries and continuing the waste of public funds, then Borisov's request is a failure”, believes Moskov.
Alexander Simov explained that the BSP should gather its collective bodies and the National Council to discuss what will happen from now on. “My opinion is that we should not move towards a quadruple coalition. There are some boundaries that should not be crossed in politics. And now “A New Beginning” is part of this governing majority, without their votes it will not exist, but they are not part of the executive branch, and they will not become one. They will probably look for some formula, as they were with the APS - with heads of committees, but not in the executive branch”, believes Simov.
According to him, the results from Pazardzhik cannot be transferred to the national level.
„We can see a formula in which not „New Beginning” enters the cabinet, and GERB has more ministers”, said Simov.