/ world today news/ Mr. Tsonev had 4 contradictions in your statements.
You said that the proposed budget update was a result of the expertise and ability of the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister. Dear Mr. Tsonev, dear colleagues, you must have heard the several statements of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance that, from an expert point of view, it is not necessary to update the budget, but it is necessary for political reasons. Second, you say why not ensure continuity between this and the next parliament and government, and colleagues from GERB congratulate you on this thesis, but there is also a contradiction here. So you are against us ensuring continuity, for example by passing the law on the audit chamber, on the Ministry of Interior, on the president’s veto, but on this issue we must ensure continuity. Your argument that we should not pass such laws at the last minute is that this Parliament has run out of confidence, this government has run out of confidence, and it is not possible for institutions with run out of confidence to pass such important laws at the last minute. We need to hear what the people will say in elections and the next ones to pass these laws. Well, when are you right? When you say that we are out of confidence and should not pass any more laws at all, or when you say that it is we who should pass the most important law of the land. Mr. Tsonev said that when the government makes an issue, it should explain what it is for. That’s right. Well, colleagues, what do you want us to vote for now? Let’s give the caretaker government the right to borrow, raise the debt without knowing what for. Fourth, we need to do this update to provide buffers that are not in the budget. Mr. Tsonev, you know that there is 5% of retained costs as a buffer. You know there are 500 million buffers in the current budget. Why make new ones?
Whenever we look at a budget, we do the same thing – both parties, regardless of who is in power and who is in opposition, we measure ourselves with different numbers. Usually the feeling among the people who look at us and for whom we have these discussions is that we are wasting our time and theirs and they don’t understand what we are doing it for. Therefore, I offer you an easier and more understandable approach. Not for everyone to pull out numbers and manipulate them, but let’s look at the official numbers and they are the ones given by the Ministry of Finance. Colleagues have mentioned them many times and I don’t need to repeat them. And in the revenue part 46%, in expenses – 47% by the half year, i.e. nothing terrible happens, but usually when we argue, we look for external independent and authoritative sources that are respected by both sides. That’s why I’m reading what the EC says – Bulgaria’s budget plans for this year and next year are in line with the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact, and the sustainability of Bulgaria’s public finances is not threatened by serious risks in the medium term. A second assessment by respected by all of us international, let’s call them, arbitrators – the European Central Bank and the European Commission – we evaluate the actions of the Bulgarian government in the field of fiscal policy positively, it is written in the reports published on 06/04/2014. It says: Bulgaria meets all the numerical criteria for the Eurozone. We have received a sufficiently authoritative external evaluation. So why do we do all this? Moreover, even if you accept it, some of you surely know that there is no way to fulfill it. I ask Minister Chobanov a question to explain – if we theoretically assume today that DPS and GERB accept this update, how will it happen in practice? The financial markets are closed in August. In September, the government should release the revised prospectus, when it will issue. It takes about 20 days for this job. We are passing the 5th of October, when we will have a new parliament that will be able to take a stand on this matter, ie. in time technologically new debt cannot be taken. Moreover, according to the Constitution, this act must be ratified by the National Assembly, and such ratification, located in time, can happen at the end of October, November, when even if a government has not been formed, there is a National Assembly, which, according to the Constitution, can only ratify these acts. Then the question remains as to why. Until now, there was a suspicion that it was to steal. However, I have another thesis – because of the election campaign. So that you can suggest that the country is in financial collapse, that the socialists have ruined Bulgaria, that you are the saviors, that’s why you do it, without ever worrying that as a result of this talking and doing the effect will be increased indebtedness of Bulgaria, interest on this indebtedness, deterioration of macro-indicators, as a result of which less investment in Bulgaria, and ultimately – a lower standard of living of the Bulgarians. Dear Bulgarians, do not get attached to these tales that the update is done only to save hospitals, to improve your life and to raise the standard of living. The effect will be opposite. This update is being done to manipulate information to insinuate to the public a management failure to steal this money if they succeed in releasing issues. After all, because of the same elections and political struggles on the backs of the Bulgarian people. Sorry we will not participate in this and will not support this update.
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