There is no such legal procedure to withdraw a budget. Borisov expressed himself figuratively. There are two versions - either a new budget is started by the Council of Ministers, which is the cleanest procedure, but it would mean having an adopted budget in March, the other technique, when a new point of consensus is reached in society, to have a new version of the budget, a new meeting of the budget commission and a viewing in the hall, that is, renovation. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation Tomislav Donchev in the program “Panorama” on BNT.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, in the past years, whenever someone tried to raise their voice, we tried to take measures.
You have not heard me say a good word about this budget. The problem with this budget is that it resembles the budgets for last year, the year before that, and the year before that. It follows the same model. I have a remark that it meets these criticisms unlike previous budgets, he noted.
The Deputy Prime Minister admitted that GERB has always managed to make well-balanced budgets, pursuing a right-wing pragmatic policy, but in the conditions of a weakened GERB it is difficult.
According to Tomislav Donchev, the alternative is elections, which is a restart of the system. The big problem will be if, after the system restarts, it ends up in the same state it is in at the moment.
Nobody wanted to take away anyone's social benefits, the question is whether we can move in a mode of continuous expansion of social spending. Social spending is 20% of GDP and 41% of the budget, the Deputy Prime Minister specified.
Donchev said that in addition to the three things (the increase in the "Dividend" tax to fall, pension contributions to increase not by 2%, but by 1% and SUPTO to be abolished altogether), which can be reworked in the budget, there are also other changes, but after a meeting with employer organizations, unions and the Cabinet of Ministers team, as well as all parties. It is possible to find a new point of equilibrium. The task is difficult, it became clear from his words.