“The biggest problem of Kiril Petkov’s government is that it came to power, keeping silent and ignoring the huge negatives that were caused by the management of the two official cabinets of President Rumen Radev.
The replacement of all Soviet and Russian weapons systems must be a priority, because we can neither maintain them nor give them a strategic advantage. For a long time, the penetration of Russian services in Bulgaria was considered a cultural exchange, “political scientist Prof. Rumyana Kolarova, chairman of the Bulgarian Association for Political Science, told BGNES.
According to her the main problem of Kiril Petkov’s government is the legacy of the previous two caretaker governments.
“A lot of momentum has been lost. The opportunity to draw up a normal draft of the Recovery and Development Plan, to be coordinated and coordinated with the European Commission, was lost. Time was wasted in responding to the energy crisis. For 7 months the country was in free fall.
Petkov’s cabinet is a very difficult coalition of four parties. In addition to the extreme circumstances caused by the Ukrainian crisis, he had to control the state, the economy, health care from a situation of free fall. I don’t think they did it“, Said Prof. Kolarova.
According to her, in terms of legislation, in terms of the parliamentary process, the government has extremely big negatives.
“This is not just about the problems in the executive branch itself, it is about the problems in the parliamentary majority itself, which are visible. This parliament is extremely inefficient“, she said.
The parliamentary deficit is largely related to the initial position vis-à-vis the opposition.
“In all previous parliaments, with the exception of a few in which there has been very strong opposition, the opposition has been given chairmanships in key committees. In this National Assembly (NA) we see that the four ruling parties rushed to control all parliamentary committees“, Said Prof. Kolarova.
according to her two of the ministers in the government have to be replaced because they are doing great damage to the state with their actions.
„There is a minister in Petkov’s cabinet who does not seem to exist. This is the foreign minister. There’s a big black hole. Especially in this difficult situation, the absence of a person in this sectoral policy has an extremely bad effect on the cabinet, “said Prof. Kolarova.
The antithesis of Minister Teodora Genchovska is Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, who is overactive.
„His actions have put the government in an extremely difficult situation. Rashkov was seen as a good tool to put some pressure on the two election processes – the two parliamentary elections and the presidential vote. Rashkov is a recurrence of the past, which has extremely negative consequences for the government.
There is a combination of a lack of sense of the need for procedural precision and leadership, which is evident in the arrest of GERB leader Boyko Borisov, Vladislav Goranov and Sevdalina Arnaudova. His style and views on the way the work in the Ministry of Interior should be organized also have extremely negative consequences, “said the political scientist.
She defined as extremely constructive release of the Minister of Defense Gen. Stefan Yanev’s officewho “acted from the position of still prime minister, which was not appropriate.”
Prof. Kolarova thinks error that no accountability was sought from the cabinets appointed by President Rumen Radev.
The most difficult and this is the biggest problem of Petkov’s cabinet is that he came to power, pointing out the negative problems of Borissov’s government, but keeping silent and ignoring the huge negatives caused by the management of the two official cabinets of Rumen Radev, “she said.
“Finding mutually acceptable solutions and compromises from the four parties must take place in parliament, in communication between them, which we do not see. This would further weaken the president’s position.
Sociologists have noted an erosion in support of Radevbut it has to do with something else. People saw him as the unifier of all those parties that promised change.
There is no change at the moment. The president does not see himself as responsible for this, but seeks the responsibility of parties and specific ministers. At the same time, the disintegration of this quadruple coalition, the vision of clear contradictions withinthe disappointment with the promises made cannot but affect the president “, added Prof. Kolarova.
She also commented the serious consequences for our country of the Ukrainian conflict.
“The initial position of President Rumen Radev and Stefan Yanev, who was Minister of Defense, had an extremely negative impact on Bulgaria’s capabilities. We have yet to see how this will affect, “said Prof. Kolarova.
The political scientist warned that there is no way we can get modern armaments if we still keep the Russian systems we have.
“The Bulgarian army, whose modernization has been delayed, is incapable in every respect. Following a policy of soft adjustment borders on betrayal of the national interest. The replacement of all Soviet and Russian weapons systems must be a priority, because even though they are NATO-certified, we cannot maintain them and they do not give us a strategic advantage.
For a long time, the penetration of Russian intelligence services in Bulgaria was considered a kind of cultural exchange. Incidents that could be perceived as hostile actions were even covered up, “Prof. Kolarova told BGNES.
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