Former Deputy Prime Minister Urges for Experienced Politicians in Regular Government to Save Bulgaria

We need a regular government, but with experienced politicians and experts. If young people who are still learning come in now, an even bigger disaster will follow. This was stated on BNT by Meglena Plugchieva, former deputy prime minister and ambassador.

According to her, GERB are obliged to make an attempt for a government. “It is their honor that they are ready to make serious compromises, somewhere they cross the red line,” she added, and insisted that they should seek wider support, because it is about saving Bulgaria.

When you are in several with crises, you should not be divided into BSP, DPS, the experience, the expertise is in GERB, in DPS, added Plugchieva, who was part of the failed cabinet of Prof. Nikolay Gabrovski with the mandate of GERB in the last parliament. Plugchieva stated that she was one of the politicians who were in power when there was not a deficit of 6%, as suggested, but there was a surplus. Now all countries were ahead of us.

She focused on high inflation, which, despite falling by 2%, is still high. The severe political crisis led to obscurity, heard that over 80 posts in institutions have expired and a decision is awaited for them. In this ambiguity, business wanders.

Let’s look over the edge of the plate and see how we look in the eyes of our neighbors, the European countries. We look bad, we are treated with distrust, with disappointment. The EU says we want to see the country’s policy and what the vision is. And we are in continuous elections, nobody wants to talk with such a country, she added.

The former deputy prime minister recalled that investments were usually 27-28% of GDP, now they are below 20% and asked – what are we happy about. She said that she is late with all indicators and benchmarks for the Eurozone, with the recovery plan. There is no energy strategy, there is a migration crisis, a lack of skilled labor and in all these crises plus war, it is untenable to have games and backroom deals. We need a regular government, but with experienced people, Plugchieva believes.

She stated that she was struck by the agreement that the Speaker of the Parliament is elected every 3 months on a rotating basis. We would break all records, in Switzerland the change of president is one year old. In three months what can happen, or it was a deal to elect a chairman. Plugchieva called this move extravagant. And he stopped at the position of the PP-DB, that in no case is it about electing a new government with the first mandate. At the same time, “Change” is waiting for support from everyone for a government with a second mandate. It is about some ugly game, but at the expense of the state, she believes.