Technical time is needed so that we can convince the European Commission that we are ready, not to lie to it.
This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by GERB-SDF MP Toma Bykov and he specified that it was almost publicly said that we should lie by transferring some expenses from one year to the next:
"We claim that if serious efforts are made, we will be truly ready for the eurozone, and not on documents, as Asen Vassilev liked. ... One of the tasks of the government is to provide clear and honest numbers in the budget to both the public and the European Commission. And to present the measures that will be taken in the coming years to move towards a balanced budget, because having a 3% deficit as the main goal of budgeting is incorrect both from the point of view of the policies that should be implemented and from the point of view of public finances," he commented, emphasizing that "it is not some drama" the delay of Budget 2025 by one week.
The PP-DB approach was to take everything from the regulators, Bykov pointed out:
"And by bypassing the parliament through some non-governmental organizations that say who is good and who is bad, a kind of casting. The constitution says that the National Assembly elects the regulators, not NGOs, the parties are responsible. It is the duty of the National Assembly to elect the regulators and for them to start working legitimately, and not semi-legitimately as now, since their mandates have now expired. This procedure will be transparent, because it will be in the National Assembly. PP proposed that the casting be closed.... The candidates will be public. If there are problems, each candidacy will be able to be reconsidered".
Delyan Peevski was not in danger so that we had to save him, said Toma Bikov on the occasion of GERB-SDF's vote against the creation of a commission to verify the activities of the leader of MRF-NN:
"We have a decision and did not support the commission for Peevski, but we also did not support a commission for Prokopiev, a commission for Soros and many other commissions that were submitted mostly by the opposition, because this takes time from the National Assembly, which we do not have, and it takes away the opportunity to set clear and normal goals before this parliament and deal with useless goals. ... When we also bring a commitment to the parliament, and the motivation for this is not to achieve something specific... The parliament can be a place for this type of conversation, but not with the aim of producing some kind of sensation. And in order to truly understand where the problems really are. ... We need to understand that judicial reform is not a media exercise, it is not something that will happen in two months with the help of some temporary commission and with a lot of enthusiasm".