- The budget has shifted attention from northern Macedonia,
- Toshko Yordanov scares with hard years and breaking ropes
Three of the ruling formations are increasingly satisfied with the way the coalition is working, and Slavi Trifonov’s “There is such a people” isolates itself and is afraid of breaking the ropes. This is the result of the last coalition council of the leaders of “We continue the change”, BSP, “Democratic Bulgaria” and ITN late Friday night.
The conversation lasted over 3 hours, which was expected to be a heart attack due to the intentions of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to demand the lifting of the Bulgarian veto for the start of accession talks between Northern Macedonia and the EU. However, the Prime Minister surprised his partners with very measured speech and lack of any imposition, participants in the meeting said. And the council focused more on updating the budget.
The talks of the coalition councils are becoming more and more pleasant and constructive, said one of the leaders involved in the meeting. And others were pleased that “There are such people” were presented by MP Stanislav Balabanov and Deputy Prime Minister Grozdan Karadzhov.
Especially constructive and dialogical
was the regional minister
Slavi Trifonov is the only party leader in the ruling coalition who always sends his proxies to the talks and never participates in person.
We agreed that the most important thing for us is to have a broad consensus. The promise we have made that this topic will necessarily pass through the National Assembly has been reaffirmed. What is important for us is to defend the Bulgarian position in connection with the bilateral agreement with Northern Macedonia, announced after the council the speaker of the cabinet Lena Borislavova. It became clear that
all four parties have reaffirmed
its position vis-à-vis Skopje,
and the ruling party agreed in the first week of June to submit the budget update to parliament. Another topic was the recovery plan, which required some 20 tough legal reforms.
In the interest of truth, we have tried, in the name of constructive dialogue, to discuss the pressing issues regarding Northern Macedonia, the budget update. Each of the political parties reaffirmed its position. We hope for some future actions of the diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a reaction from Northern Macedonia, Stanislav Balabanov from ITN also left the council relatively softly.
Much sharper a day later, however, was the deputy chairman of “There is such a people” Toshko Yordanov, who does not participate in the leadership format.
“There are such people” remain vigilant on all topics – from the Republic of Northern Macedonia (RSM) through the euro to the Bulgarian law “Magnitsky”. We cannot be at peace with this type of coalition partners, announced Yordanov in Nova TV and explained how “We continue the change” broke “one by one the threads in the coalition agreement and the rope will break”. He then announced that several difficult years were coming for the country.
On Sunday, Stanislav Balabanov sharpened again.
The Council of Ministers has recently been trying to turn parliament into a rubber seal, announced the ITN MP to BNR on Sunday. This time the attack was against a technical plan on how Bulgaria could prepare for the adoption of the euro as a currency, voted by the government on Friday afternoon. At that time, the ministers from ITN and BSP were against at the meeting.
And it was adopted on purpose to show that we can do it ourselves and we can impose this type of government. This is destructive. This is a demonstration of one-man rule, said Balabanov.
Kiril Petkov stopped in a hurry
for a meeting with Rumen Radev,
to convince him of the CIS
Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has postponed his meeting with President Rumen Radev to brief him on progress in relations with northern Macedonia over the past six months.
This was stated by sources of “24 hours” from the government. The reason is that the coalition is failing to form a unified position on Skopje anyway, as it became clear after the council on Friday night.
A one-on-one conversation to convince President Radev that it was imperative to convene the National Security Advisory Council to reconsider the veto on northern Macedonia was planned to be requested by Petkov early last week. Such a meeting was also requested by Radev as a condition for fulfilling the request of the Prime Minister to convene the CIS. The head of state suspects that the prime minister’s request is due to the broken dialogue in the coalition.
Petkov’s request to convene the KSNS came as a surprise to both the president and the ruling coalition partners in a video address late Friday night two weeks ago.
Kiril Petkov and Rumen Radev are actually waiting to have final talks with French President Emmanuel Macron before discussing the issue, but suspect some of the ruling coalition partners. At the end of June, the six months of the French EU presidency expire, and Macron had the ambition to resolve the issue of the Bulgarian veto for the start of negotiations with the Republic of Northern Macedonia. (24 hours)
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