Even under the first official government, in which Asen Vassilev was an official minister, inflation broke. This thesis confirmed to "Focus" the former Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov.
"If you check over time, when we last fulfilled the inflation criterion - it was in September 2021. This is 2-3 months after the fall of the "Borisov 3" cabinet. and the first of a number of caretaker governments - the most recent, when Asen Vassilev was the finance minister for the first time. Then such a policy was undertaken supposedly in the name of social welfare, of equality, but many prices rose sharply, some additional social benefits were given and most importantly - large subsidies were given to absolutely undeserving large companies like "Lukoil". for example. And then inflation shot up sharply, and so far we are somewhere around 2.5 percentage points above what we should be", said Dyankov.
Did the politics of Asen Vassilev push us?
"Definitely. This was also the reason why we are still not in the Eurozone. And that's why recently, when we hear that this is part of disinformation, from external forces - just us, if we had fulfilled the criteria - we would be in the Eurozone. We haven't done it. Let's get together and do it. There is a serious political overtone here and for the future. I am convinced that if we manage to organize the next regular government relatively quickly and do not enter into a series of caretaker governments - this government has a great chance to go down in history as the government that has entered both the Eurozone and the definitive Schengen. In this way, it will become a historic government. For me, this is an additional chance and a reason to create a regular government," Simeon Dyankov was emphatic.