BNB Governor Dimitar Radev speaks well of the management of the BNB, because policies must be coordinated in every country. We know that the BNB is very limited in its powers because we are in a currency board. But now, hours after the announcement of the draft budget, the governor of the BNB is coming out, commenting and criticizing the budget on all lines… This is quite unusual. When I was in the parliament and we attacked the budget of GERB and DPS, people from the BNB came to the Budget Committee, but they talked about the budget with some nice words. And now what is… So this reaction of the governor of the BNB looks a bit like a political order to me. And this is no longer good. This is what he announced to Lili Marinkova in the "FACTS" studio. and the show “Conversation“ prof. Rumen Gechev, lecturer at UNSS and former MP from BSP.
„In terms of quantitative parameters, the budget is not at all what Boyko Borisov tells us and scares us, that it has 18 billion. left hole. And one more thing. Now the budget is made by people whom Borisov has appointed. And one more thing. Borisov both talks and scares with a hole in the budget of 18 billion BGN, and also wants to rule, wants to be prime minister… How does that sound to you? The budget deficits under Borisov were the same. We haven't forgotten the year 2015, when Borisov was in power, how he forced the parliament to vote for permission for his government to take out a loan of 16 billion leva for the next three years – until 2018. The budget is voted on year after year. And Borisov's government then introduced an innovation in the budget – permission for a loan three years ahead“, added prof. Gechev.
See more of the conversation in the VIDEO.