Dear compatriots,
We are minutes away from the New Year 2025. We welcome it with people close to our hearts, with hopes and good wishes. With a common belief that it will bring health and prosperity.
The world is sending off a year full of risks. Wars are intensifying, democracy is going through a difficult period, and new challenges are looming on the horizon. Peace, stability, freedom, fair elections, which until yesterday seemed guaranteed in Europe, are today in question. The parliamentary elections in our country also did not reveal a strategic perspective for a way out of the chronic political crisis.
Crises teach us that the future lies in our joint efforts, in the active position of each of us in every life and political choice. Without the participation and control of citizens, statehood weakens and cannot guarantee them basic needs, public and even personal relations become strained, our enormous potential as a nation remains untapped, and our future becomes hostage to oligarchic and coterie interests.
It is time to seek a way out of political weakness, corruption, and uncertainty together. It is time to set high goals together. Every day, thousands of compatriots - scientists, engineers, artists and educators, our Olympians - with spirit, will and hard work write new pages in the history of the Motherland and give us confidence that we can do much more.
I want to express my deep gratitude to the worthy Bulgarians from all corners, religions and professions, who fulfill their creative dreams with honest work and skill and move our country forward. To all parents who raise and educate the children of Bulgaria.
As we fill our glasses, let us not forget those who are at their workplaces on the festive night to guarantee our life, health and security: medics, police officers, military personnel, on-duty teams.
Dear compatriots,
The year 2025 will confront us with new challenges. I am convinced that we will find the wisdom and strength to deal with them. We will realize that in an era of global turmoil, unity is the path to preserving the Fatherland. I believe that we have the talent and will to establish Bulgaria as a strong, sovereign and prosperous country on the map of Europe.
I wish you peace, health and faith in goodness! May all worthy undertakings be blessed and may the New Year bring joy and light to everyone! Let us step into it with pure thoughts and emerge from it with our heads held high as people and as Bulgarians.
Happy New Year 2025!