It was necessary to act expeditiously for a caretaker prime minister and cabinet, and we could have held the elections now. Why do these meetings with political parties last a whole week, what do so many parties have to say, half of which will not enter the next parliament? This was commented by former Deputy Minister of Finance, former BSP MP and founder of the "Normal State" party Georgi Kadiev in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio.
"Why is the ball being kicked - I have no idea, we can only speculate. The delay serves the current government, and usually the biggest stupid things are done in the last few days. You see what's happening in Ruse - the purchase of Taki. There are probably other things that we'll understand someday," Kadiev also said in the program "Horizont for You". And he is categorical that there is endless procrastination, completely unnecessary, which helps no one.
According to him, President Iliana Yotova does not have a normal and useful move in choosing an acting prime minister from the five who gave their consent, due to the changes in the Constitution:
"The only one who is not related to Peevski is Gyurov. In all the cases before him, for me this is the only appointment over which Peevski will have no influence. Yes, there is a risk that Gyurov will be attacked by the Constitutional Court. For everyone else, except him, it means direct control over the caretaker government, especially over the Minister of the Interior, and it means some kind of deal."
And he added:
"The ladies are absolutely not ready. I have been with one of them in the National Assembly and the Council of State and I did not hear her voice there. And the second one was an employee in the Court of Accounts, then in the Anti-Corruption Commission, then again in the Court of Accounts and is completely controlled by Peevski. For me, if it is someone other than Gyurov, this is a clean deal."
Kadiev is categorical that it is absurd to adopt a budget before the elections. It is normal for it to be adopted by June, so that at least the second half of the year can work normally.
"It must be tight and conservative, because we are going the way of Romania, which had a 9% deficit in 2024. We are inflating the deficit and in 2 years we will have to take the tough measures, it is better to take the tough measures now. But before the elections, no one will do that," warned Georgi Kadiev.
He said that the only criterion for him for choosing a BSP chairman is "not to be from Peevski's brood, which practically took over the BSP":
"Rumen Radev will suck up a large part of the BSP's votes and they will hardly enter the next parliament, but the BSP must be helped, because it is history, many people are family-related. For me, it would be a pity for the BSP to go away ingloriously and I hope that the next chairman will be a person who can expand and look for people with left-wing beliefs who refused to vote. And this does not happen with dependent chairmen and entering cabinet 222A."
In the hypothesis "Rumen Radev at the head of the state" Kadiev sees a chance for something to change:
"To stir things up in order to fix them, because this status quo from 2009, which governs us with mimicry, has brought us here. Whether Radev will take advantage, I have no idea. The important thing is who the people around him are and how high-quality they are, because the BSP's problem is that it lost high-quality people. Could the same thing happen with Radev? We need high-quality people, to do high-quality things. Look at the level in the National Assembly, it has dropped dramatically, there are people who you would not appoint to the MPR to work, and they govern us."