Two managers from Harvard in an attempt to restart Bulgaria
It is heard this week, when in the middle of the week Asen Vassilev says: “The trend is up, I have a chance for first place”, while sociologists give you a result of eight percent after the parties of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Accompanied by allegations of corruption, his party remains in second place. Vassilev and his friend Kiril Petkov founded the party only in September, writes “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, quoted by BGNES.
However, Vassilev’s self-confidence is not deceptive: on Monday morning, with about half of the votes counted, the newly formed party of Kiril Petkov and Vassilev is well ahead of GERB with 26 percent of the vote. The hopes are together with two other reformist parties and that of the Socialists, so that a decree will be created in every poor Bulgaria and the promise to continue the change from “We continue the changes” will be kept.
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But who are the supposedly new strong men in Sofia? And how did I manage to take power from scratch in such a short time, even when only ten Bulgarians went to the polls in the midst of the worst Kovid crisis?
Unplanned political career:
Vassilev and his friend Kiril Petkov never intended to call themselves the Harvard Duo, Vassilev said a few days ago in a telephone interview from the center of his company in Sofia. It has been transformed into a temporary election headquarters. President Rumen Radev appointed entrepreneurs as caretaker ministers in May this year: Petkov for the economy, Vassilev for finance.
Both advanced public confidence: Petkov reformed the development bank, which lends to several large, instead of the planned very small entrepreneurs. Vassilev, who in 2013 was only 35, headed the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism for 77 days in the midst of an energy crisis.
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Vassilev and his team also reformed tax collection: “Until now, it has focused on small shops, bakeries, hairdressers, etc. We focused the work on the big taxpayers. We raised an additional BGN 2.5 billion within four months. This corresponds to about 5 percent of the planned government spending for 2021. So you have more money for health care and an increase in pensions. “Many retirees no longer live below the poverty line,” Vassilev said.
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