T. so-called testimony is an attempt to divert attention from the real issue in the country, which is the rigged elections. Former Minister of Finance Asen Vasilev, co-chairman of "We continue the change" and MP from PP-DB.
PP-DB will not support a representative of GERB for chairman of the National Assembly and they would not support a GERB minority government, recalled the former finance minister.
"These are not testimonies, this is more like pasquil", this is how he commented on the publications published in some media, which are claimed to be the testimonies of the former director of the "Customs" Agency. Petya Bankova, in which Asen Vasilev is also mentioned.
"There are three facts inside that are wrong and easily proven", he further clarified and added:
"We launched an open public tender for the X-rays, there were many applicants, then the VAS canceled it and that was the end of the "Denkov" cabinet, everything after that apparently happened during the service cabinet. Talk about the Medical Helicopters – the beneficiary of the project for the construction of emergency air assistance through PVU is the Ministry of Health. The helicopters were agreed, signed and paid for there. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport have no direct involvement in this matter. For the so-called "Chinese trains“ – there was an expressed intention for Chinese companies to participate in public procurement for the supply of new rolling stock for BDZ. The Minister of Transport asks the EC for eligibility, the EC expressed considerations, and the Chinese did not submit an offer at all.
"In the statements in question, if they are hers, Bankova herself says that before she was appointed deputy chief, after a conversation with me, I told her that she should go and have a conversation with Pavel Tonev - he yes he liked her and offered her. That's how I work. I choose the person, I give that person full responsibility so that I can then demand results from him. I do not meddle in personnel policy downwards in any of the agencies that have been under me. ... All managers have freedom in how they do their personnel selection, because if you tell them to appoint Pesho, Gosho and Tosho, then they will say that they did not succeed because of Pesho, Gosho and Tosho", Vassilev explained and recalled that while Petya Bankova was deputy director and director of "Customs" there were record amounts of contraband seized and the Customs Agency has increased collection.
The former finance minister emphasized that he did not stop reports of smuggling, and he could not, because they do not go through the minister, but go directly to DANS and BOP, "there are even common groups between "Customs" and BOP and "Customs" and DANCE".
At the moment there are no talks about future management, "GERB are the winners of the elections and this is their duty," said the co-chairman of the PP and specified that they have not yet received a response from GERB to the declaration they sent to all parliamentary formations.
"As far as we can see there is a large consensus, the question is whether "Revival" they will join or - not".
Asen Vasilev stated that PP-DB will support the request of ITN to change the Election Code:
"The topic is necessary, considering that what is emerging is most likely new elections, and it would be best to hold them with an Electoral Code limiting as much as possible the possibility of falsifying the election and the result".
I am not sure that Peevski is stronger than ever, but I am sure that his appetite to absorb parties is greater than ever, Vassilev said and commented:
"We saw what happened with DPS, we hear that there are such approaches in the direction of GERB. We saw in Blagoevgrad how Rosen Zhelyazkov was replaced with preferences of three, not one".