The hole in the budget is 13 billion, the Ministry of Finance calculated, and with accumulation it could reach 18 billion. "It is certainly extremely difficult to overcome such a deficit," said the former Minister of Economy Lachezar Borisov in the program “Offensive with Ljubo Ognyanov” on NOVA NEWS.
Some of the parties are afraid to govern, because it is necessary to have a maximum deficit of 3%, said Borisov and clarified that it is a question of 12-13 billion. leva to deal with. “The next finance minister must have aerobatics skills, because there was an accumulation of long-term spending policies, and the problems were solved in the short term,”, he explained. The former minister recalled that part of the money for infrastructure was seized from the central budget. Then over 1 billion BGN funds were seized from BEH and its subsidiaries through dividends and excess dividends. The spending policies had a short-term nature”, said the former minister.
He does not expect the increase in the salaries of the military and the police to be postponed. “I consider it a commitment, maybe there will be some delay. It is important that each minister defends his sector in front of his financial colleague," explained Borisov.
Regarding the idea of an interest amnesty for companies with tax liabilities, he believes that such a one-time measure will partially solve the problem. “Italy and Spain resorted to a similar measure when their debt was growing. The fact that we are reaching such a measure shows that structurally we have a problem, added Lachezar Borisov.