"We will negotiate with GERB if Delyan Peevski does not manage this party as he currently does. He took us back to the Mutren years. For me, this is absolutely destructive for Bulgaria. This is what the retired finance minister and co-chairman of the PP Asen Vasilev told Darik radio, quoted by novini.bg..
He reported that with the help of Peevski, important changes were made to the laws and the Constitution, but the problems started when it came time to reform the services, the justice system and the regulators.
"Every single person, in my opinion, has both good and evil in him. However, how he sees the development of the social system, if it influences social processes, is another question. And if we look at what happened last year - purely as legislation, and changes in the Constitution, and all law reforms. They passed as legislation with relatively little trouble. However, when the time came to really reform the state, to make this legislation a reality, not to remain on paper, we saw this face that I think we all have known for a long time, which is that all the regulators, the judiciary, the prosecution, the services - everything this should continue to be managed with fixed matches, with people getting phone calls, there is no fair process on how to choose the people who go inside, because the whole agreement was that - not to pre-arrange the match,” said Asen Vasilev.
According to Vassilev, PP did not help Peevski's political legitimacy.
"Peevski is perhaps the only politician in Bulgaria who does not depend on public opinion. His constituents are there, they vote for him no matter what hedoes. His approval rating, if you look among DPS voters, is four percent. 4% is not a legitimized politician. He has this base on which he can stand, which is not affected by approval and legitimation," the resigned finance minister also said.
He commented on the submitted and subsequently withdrawn resignation of the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhivko Kotsev. According to him, the allegations that he was a contraband addict are "sewn with white threads". According to him, it was worrying that he was being used and threatened to resign.
"If he was a contraband addict, wouldn't he be arrested? Why is he free? Why is he not detained, why is he under unregulated pressure to voluntarily resign? Why should you pressure a person to resign if you have collected evidence", Vassilev asked.