Tomislav Donchev: Why shouldn’t the GERB implement the 2021 budget to its end?

Tomislav Donchev defended the government budget for 2021 a year that was not pre-election but focused on the crisis. According to Donchev, the possibility should not be overlooked GERB will continue to rule after spring next year and implement this budget to the end. Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev commented on the BNT study on the political situation and the plan for reconstruction and development in Bulgaria, presented by him a few days ago.

The resignation of the government would make sense if it brought public peace, in which Tomislav Donchev showed that he does not believe. One resignation, even if it occurs in summer, would not lead to calm or a reduction of the crisis. However, what would happen if he resigned with the state’s health and finances situation, if he currently ran an interim government? The deputy prime minister asked. Even now he thinks that even the scenario of the protesters and the presidency was not like that, on the contrary, now they have the convenient culprit.

In quick questions about a possible coalition, Tomislav Donchev insisted that GERB will not rule with BSP and MRF, and he cannot imagine how they could form a coalition with the formation of Slavi Trifonov, since he still does not have a clear ideological physiognomy. A coalition with Democratic Bulgaria would also be a training effort, “after the reproaches we have already heard.” “It is difficult to imagine a different formation to the current one. Let the citizens decide, later we will see.”

I think the government is handling the crisis.insofar as a crisis can be managed. We monitor what others are doing: Member States are taking selective or local action. That is what we are doing, said Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev.

We are trying to do the same: we have increasing measures. If necessary, stricter measures will be taken., but so far there is no such need. When asked if he approved of the actions and behavior of the current Health Minister Kostadin Angelov, Donchev said: “He is the Bulgarian Minister of Health in the Bulgarian government. Who do you propose to trust?”

Tomislav Donchev emphasized personal and individual responsibility for compliance with the measuresto reduce the spread of infection and pressure on the healthcare system.

The numbers do not give reason to reassure us, but even now our doctors do not only have the protocols of the Chinese, as was the spring. In any case, Tomislav Donchev does not want the situation in Spain and Italy to be repeated here. “We will make it possible for this to happen in our country,” said Tomislav Donchev, but noted that even the German economy cannot afford a second spring closure.

When asked about the call from his former partner at GERB, Tsvetan Tsvetanov to summon the CIS for the crisis, Tomislav Donchev acknowledged a difficult institutional dialogue. “I suppose the situation is complicated enough to wait for the head of state to take a position. However, so far we have not heard anything specific,” said Tomislav Donchev.