I was part of the team that made a very important decision five years ago. At that time, we participated in very sharp debates with the incumbent president as to whether this was the best decision. When big decisions are made, they change the direction of the country. If we had not shown determination then to launch the F-16 deal and make a decision on it, perhaps we would still be debating what the geopolitical situation of the country is. This was stated by former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov in the program “Face to Face” on BTV.
GERB has been established as a party for 20 years now, to follow a clear direction, and comments like Borislavova's can only advertise that we have consistency and memory of where we are going and what we are doing. We have crossed a line of no return. There is no country in the Balkans that has such an aircraft, he added.
„These technologies are very expensive. When the National Assembly voted to conclude such an agreement with the US, there was political uncertainty because the Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Army vetoed and said that he did not want this decision. If you are one of the parties to the agreement, in this case the US, you will say to yourself: „You are a new partner for us, unstable, unestablished, with an unclear geopolitical orientation. If you please, pay the bill in advance, because it would be very stupid if in three months the government changes and someone comes and says that he does not want this deal. "That's why you will pay the entire bill the first time, the money will be in your account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. It's a shame that we lost tens of millions because our account didn't earn interest. We transferred money in advance because our American partners didn't trust the extent to which Bulgaria had taken the turn towards NATO armament. They saw the political uncertainty," Goranov specified.
The next such milestone, which will irrevocably turn us in an irrevocable direction, is entering the eurozone. The process of joining the eurozone is irrevocable. Entering the eurozone is the only way for no one to ever think that the lev can be replaced by rubles, which is why there is this hysteria and this tension. It is certainly a mistake of the authorities in recent years that they were late with propaganda in the good sense of the word. We are on a geopolitical fault line and such battles will happen. The more of them we overcome, the better for us, the former finance minister emphasized.
He pointed out that GERB may be taking hesitant steps in one direction, but they are not changing it.