„This is the currently possible budget. It can certainly be better. We have 69 deputies and we have to take into account a complex structure. So here we rather need admiration for what we managed to achieve“, former Finance Minister and GERB member Vladislav Goranov told bTV.
He defined the financial framework for 2025 as the budget of the government of Rosen Zhelyazkov.
„It was prepared by the ruling majority, the author is the Ministry of Finance. Temenuzhka Petkova, with the political capacity behind her, entered a Eurogroup meeting, reported and was encouraged to submit a request for an extraordinary convergence report. For me, this is the first step towards entering the banking union and ERM2 and means to a large extent the realization of the biggest task that can be accomplished by the current majority - replacing the lev with the euro as soon as possible“, Goranov also said.
According to him, Assen Vassilev has no contribution to this.
„Financial policy was prudent from 1997 to 2021. A little over 400 million leva will be the additional cost to implement the Swiss rule for increasing pensions. For this purpose, the investment program will be optimized and the pace of investments in municipalities will be slightly slowed down“, Goranov also said.
The current majority, besides being fragile, is not inclined to make very abrupt decisions in order to overturn already made decisions on increasing salaries in specific sectors. This is how Goranov commented on the increase in salaries in the Ministry of Internal Affairs by 50%.
He added that the bill should be introduced into the National Assembly no later than Monday, after consultations with the Tripartite Cooperation Council.