PP-DB will not support Budget 2025. This budget is absolutely scandalous and is worse than the one prepared by the acting Minister Lyudmila Petkova. This was stated to BTV by the former Finance Minister and current MP from PP-DB Asen Vassilev.
"This budget was made once so that we would not enter the eurozone, a second time to overthrow the government."
"It is scandalous that all social payments are being frozen for the next 4 years - maternity benefits are not being increased, the minimum wage remains frozen, but the minimum social security income is being increased", commented Vassilev.
And he added that the calculation for the increase in salaries in the Ministry of Interior was made incorrectly.
And he saw a planned explosion of this government.
"They waited for the BSP Plenum to pass because I wanted to see how the left would react to this budget", asked Vassilev.
He stated that during the first vote for the commission to investigate Delyan Peevski, part from the PP-DB group was absent for personal reasons, but even if the entire PG was in the hall, 4 votes would not be enough. In response to a question on air, Asen Vassilev revealed that he had only one message to Peevski.
He described it as unrealistic to increase VAT revenues by 30%, "a huge capital program with an increase of about 5 billion leva is planned. The reduction in expenses has been reduced to 40% of GDP, and the European funds are separate", Vassilev pointed out.
And the reduction in the budget, in order to meet the criteria for the euro, may come precisely from the reduction in expenses for the Ministry of Interior, such as the increases being effective from April 1, not January 1, according to the former Finance Minister.
"The eurozone is at risk because in Brussels they can read numbers. "If someone can tell me why VAT revenues are being increased by 30%, I will immediately say that this budget will be supported," Vassilev was categorical.