The negotiations between GERB and PP-DB on the government rotation started on Saturday evening and lasted about four hours, and will be resumed on Sunday. The negotiating teams from both sides refused to comment when entering and leaving the National Assembly building. Earlier, both formations set conditions for retaining the government. At the meeting on Saturday, GERB put on the negotiation table a proposal for a coalition agreement, and PP-DB a memorandum on the appointments in key state bodies.
GERB leader Boyko Borisov refused to participate in the negotiations and delegated powers to Maria Gabriel, Denitsa Sacheva, Raya Nazaryan and Temenuzhka Petkova. The PP-DB team includes Nikolay Denkov, Kiril Petkov, Asen Vasilev, Hristo Ivanov and Atanas Atanasov.
On Monday and Tuesday, President Rumen Radev will hold consultations with the parties, after which he will hand over the first mandate to the prime minister candidate nominated by GERB-SDS.
DB: First the reforms, then the ministers
“First we will discuss the reforms, then the structure and composition of the Council of Ministers. It is not important how the document to be signed is called, the content is important, the title is not important. We hope for common sense and responsible behavior, I expect to understand each other” , said Hristo Ivanov before the start of today’s negotiations between GERB-SDS and PP-DB, which will take place this evening.
“In order to be able to continue them, we must clearly engage with them. All topics are on the table, we will discuss everything – the fight against corruption, justice, regulators. There are parts and ideas in the document of colleagues from GERB that are worth discussing “Ivanov said.
He defended the stay of Asev Vasilev from PP as Minister of Finance in the cabinet: “The name of the Minister of Finance is currently “Minister of the Eurozone”. Months before the moment when we expect, thanks to the efforts of Asen Vasilev, two windows to come together – of the macroeconomic indicators and of the political will in Europe to accept us, months before the realization of this a strategic goal to replace the man who brought it about borders on hard-to-explain political behavior”.
Ivanov commented on the upcoming negotiations for the rotation of the National Conference of “Yes, Bulgaria”, which decides which European political family to join, as well as its future political strategy.
Kiril Petkov called for realistic goals
At the “Yes, Bulgaria” forum, the co-chairman of the PP Kiril Petkov, who was present as a guest, also commented on the upcoming negotiations on the rotation.
It highlights changes in services and regulators: “We have the task of these so-called permanent power systems for the first time to start democratizing them, not us to take them over, but to make them institutions”.
“If we work together to gradually make ‘cracks’ in this system and convince other communities that this is right, it will be good for everyone”he pointed out.
In order for other communities to listen to us, they need to understand why they will be better off with our community, explained Petkov.
In his words, together with “Democratic Bulgaria” they must set realistic tasks, because just as no one can “evaporate” them and nearly a million of their voters, neither can they “evaporate” the other communities in our country.
We represent a community that is heterogeneous, but has several common characteristics, the PP co-chairman pointed out.
The first is that it is the community that creates added value, it is the free people. These people have a common vision for Bulgaria’s European future, explained Petkov. And for that community to be relevant, some of the decision-makers need to be together, he pointed out. Together we are stronger, more knowledgeable and more able, Petkov is convinced.
Our common task is to be united, if we are not – we do not sit at the table, he emphasized and called on them to start realizing the political reality of society, to set themselves real tasks.
He added that apart from their community, there are others. There is a large community that does not want change, not because they are bad people, but simply afraid that any change will in some way harm their interests, commented Kiril Petkov. There is also a community that remembers its young years from communism, another – which was suppressed a lot during communism with barbaric approaches, it still bears the wounds of that time and is united, the co-chairman of the PP also said.
“One of the big mistakes of our community is that we hardly know more, we can do more, and that’s why the other communities should all listen to us. I realized that we can be the driving force of Bulgaria, but its movement depends on how all these communities are interact”said Kiril Petkov.
