Today's scandal is that the January deficit figures were not published. Why? We have information that there is no deficit. And not only that - we have a 500 million surplus for January. How can you talk about an 18 billion leva hole in the budget, when in January you were in surplus by half a billion? Even when they try to bring in these 350 million, that they are the reason - we know that their deficit was 400 million. Even if 350 million came in, they should still be in deficit, but in fact they are in surplus by 500 million leva. When you mess up with 900 million in the first month, and when the budget is in surplus, it means that you have no control over public finances. This was stated by the co-chairman of “We continue the change“ Kiril Petkov to journalists on the sidelines of the parliament, quoted by novini.bg.
Regarding the regulators, he commented: “We have always said that it is important for us to have fair competitions, not to rush, to listen to all candidates, to have no backstage deals. The idea is not for the coalition partners to have everything set up, to pass all the regulators in a week and to wake up with regulators in the dark.“
“Our appeal to those in power – these will be the people who will manage the permanent government in the next 5-7 years. We must have a hearing for them, fair competitions without deals. Our candidates will not be based on contracts with anyone, we will not pick up Borisov's phone and say: "If you vote like this, we will vote like this". Let's see who the best candidates are and choose the best among them," he added.
He emphasized that the reason the assembly will not take place is an agreement that others are used to happening in the dark and under the table: "We do not accept it."
“If they put names like Galya Dimitrova, the former head of the National Revenue Agency, who everyone knows that she herself said that the National Revenue Agency was used as a bludgeon - we cannot support such people. We will support the best in each regulator and we will not make backstage deals.
I heard Borisov say something about files and gutters - this is not what we are talking about. The point here is that this lady said that the Ministry of Interior and the National Revenue Agency are working together on a signal to hit certain businesses and businessmen. This cannot be the new Deputy Minister of Finance“, Petkov is categorical.
“Can you imagine that in Bulgaria we can live with fair competitions? Can you imagine that we can have the Supreme Judicial Council without anyone being able to press the Enter button? That's what we're fighting for. It's not complicated, they do that in many countries. With the Enter button you can see how far we've come“, he also said.