“Co-chairman of Democratic Bulgaria raises concerns over President Radev’s accumulation of power”

“The president formed an unregistered party in power. It is no secret that a very serious participation of the presidential team in the local elections is expected. Through certain informal contacts in Plovdiv, certain vectors can also be traced in the judiciary. If it comes to the release of Ivan Geshev, where will the president of the Supreme Administrative Court stand, for example?” This was stated in an interview with Darik Radio by the co-chairman of “Continuing the Change – Democratic Bulgaria” Hristo Ivanov.

According to him, it is disturbing that in the last two years President Radev has been accumulating power in the administration and that the supposedly constitutionally weak figure of the head of state has turned out to be very strong through the emergence of a reserve constitutional model, which by design was supposed to be only temporary . The particular danger in it is that it is not clear how and whether the caretaker government announced by the president is controlled by him, Ivanov said.

“Therefore, a regular parliamentary government will end the irresponsible caretaker government and the parallels with the 16th Soviet Republic,” he added.

According to the leader of “Yes, Bulgaria”, the promotion of Maria Gabriel as candidate prime minister of GERB-SDS was an attempt to make an independent argument to overcome the promise of “Continuing the Change – Democratic Bulgaria” not to support the first mandate. “We, unlike Boyko Borisov, do not have such flexibility and acrobatics. This is not stubbornness, but consistency,” said Ivanov. And he added that the European Commission, from which Gabriel comes, is called to be the guardian of the legal order in the EU, but has itself failed with the mechanism for monitoring our judicial system. It was supposed to last a maximum of 3 years, but it lasted 16 and ended in vain with a shameful deal between the European People’s Party and Jean-Claude Juncker’s EC.

“Now we insist that the real chance for a government with the second mandate is not because we want it to be ours, but because whoever holds the mandate, indicates the figure of the prime minister. Because the prime minister can bring down the government himself, if it turns out to be a facade, if at some point we happen to have some requests for reform, but they don’t happen. We want to make sure that when we talk about constitutional reform, it will be until its publication in the “State Gazette”, and not until it reaches the middle and then turns somewhere. That is why it is important who the prime minister is. We trust Academician Denkov that if things do not go the way they should, he will resign”, said Hristo Ivanov.

According to Ivanov, if the first mandate ends unsuccessfully, Borisov will have no way to explain that he does not support the second, provided that the GERB have already declared that they support the constitutional reform, the legislative program and the management programs drawn up by the PP-DB at the beginning of the talks them

“If there is no government, anyone who drags the country into the next election will bear a huge responsibility,” said Ivanov.