Bulgaria has Messi and this is me: Borisov sees no one more suitable than himself for prime minister (Updated)
GERB leader Boyko Borisov said that he is the most suitable for prime minister – “able, knowledgeable, getting out of the crisis”, but there is another option – for a neutral candidate who is acceptable to the other parties if they agree to sign a governance agreement. There is no option for GERB-SDS to return the unfulfilled mandate, announced Borisov on Sunday morning, when the Executive Committee of GERB met to decide who the prime minister candidate would be, who on Monday at 10 a.m. would receive the first presidential mandate to form the parliament.
On Sunday evening, however, there is still no news of what the party leadership has decided.
“You’ll find out tomorrow”said the deputy chairman of GERB Tomislav Donchev to bTV.
It is not clear why it is this secrecybut the publication is already associated with similar political mysteries, as happened with ITN last summer, when the unknown Plamen Nikolov surprisingly turns out to be the person nominated by Slavi Trifonov’s party for Prime Minister.
In the last 2 months, from where GERB won the elections, but there are only 67 out of 240 deputies in the parliament, Borissov realized that he had no prospects of gathering a majority for a cabinet. The reason is that the second political force “We continue the change” and their allies “Democratic Bulgaria” refuse talks with GERB, as they believe that their leader Boyko Borisov is responsible for the corrupt management model.
Borisov, however, not only refuses to step down from the leadership post, but seeks political legitimation for himself and his party as acceptable and indispensable partners.
Now he reiterated that GERD will they also support the secondand third term to form the government, as long as there is agreement from the other parties. In fact, GERB gathers many with DPS and BSP – their “paper ballot” coalition was united as a fist in crippling machine voting and bringing back paper voting, a well-tested model for electoral fraud and manipulation. For even greater certainty, “Bulgarian Rise” is ready to join this group.
At the moment, however, Borisov seems unwilling to take the political risk of ruling together with DPS and BSP, which is why he wants to bring in PP and DB.
We have a prime minister. And we have Messi. This is me
Before the meeting of the Executive Committee of GERB, he commented that there is no better prime minister than him, but the political elite is not ready to accept him. Borisov directly compared himself to football star Lionel Messi.
“GERD has two variants – I have a prime minister, I think there is still no one better than me in GERB. But such a minority government is hardly the best for stability at the moment. Rather, he has not yet matured the political elite… and Messi is 31 years old, but when he entered, he scored the first goal. Bulgaria has a Messi in this respect, and that’s me. The second option in front of us is to propose an option for the prime minister to go and have a conversation and explain to these colleagues that the catastrophe we have already hit, but if we continue to roll, will bring irreparable consequences. Colleagues will leave for the Eurozone, for Schengen, they will tear us away as an anchor and leave us as a buffer against refugees. This was the first idea a year ago that I pounded on the table like you can’t imagine.”
As it became clear from Borisov’s words, which of the options they will implement depends on whether they will find an agreement with the other parties on priority policies, including “We continue the change”.
“These are the options – if they are not stubborn, to sign a document with 10, 15, 20 points – we have 10, 15, 20 days, here President Rumen Radev is understanding. What should be done? And based on this it doesn’t matter who the mandate is with, we are happy to stay in their mandate or the third, it doesn’t matter. The government can be made without stubbornness – with a short mandate, scheduled functions, they are ministers. This is what we did with the “Reformation Bloc” as well. and with the “Patriotic Front” and with the ABV. So we have two options – I am the one who can, knows, gets out of the crisis. Or another prime minister who can sign this document with them and get through the winter. Everything else is wild populism .”
Campaign warm-up on TVs
Shortly before this statement by Borisov, politicians close to him heated up a publication with agitation for his only possible and logical nomination for Prime Minister.
“Cabinet with Prime Minister We will most likely not see Desislava Atanasovawe have a prime minister and his name is Boyko Borisov”, said the former finance minister Vladislav Goranov on Sunday morning in front of bTV. Recently, the deputy from GERB Dear Dilov-son also expressed his conviction that the party should nominate Boyko Borisov for prime minister.
“Borisov is the only person who can handle the situationa“, repeatedly repeated Vladislav Goranov, former finance minister of Borisov, expelled by him because of suspicion that he was a man of Delyan Peevski, but subsequently kept his close contacts with the party and its leader.
Goranov opposed the rumors that Desislava Atanasova or Tomislav Donchev could be nominated by GERB for Prime Minister.
“When you have Messi, you don’t need to look for Angel Di Maria“, twice emphasizes Goranov, using a current football metaphor. He undoubtedly gave Boyko Borisov great pleasure, comparing him to world-class football stars.
Tomislav Donchev or Desi Atanasova – any of them would do well, but when you have such a strong leader, he must come forward, Goranov continued.
He told how impressed he was by the reception with which Borisov was honored by the Ecumenical Patriarch, and then at the meeting of the EPP:
“What I saw at the EPP meeting in Greece these days shows that Boyko Borisov is the most prepared and well-received Bulgarian politician. Boyko Borisov, I don’t know what he thinks about it, I’m telling my personal impressions – that in trials and crisis we must put a real leader, and he has shown himself to be one. For me, Borisov is the only person who can handle the situation”.
Otherwise, the former minister expressed the opinion that for the composition of a possible cabinet, he can propose at least 10 people for each post: “At the moment, no one in the party knows the composition of such, but I know a large part of the people in GERB, and I can offer you at least 10 people for the cabinet for each ministerial position. Delyan Dobrev and Kiril Ananiev could be suitable ministers of finance. , and Krasimir Valchev and others”, he said.
When asked if he would hire a finance minister again, Goranov replied: “I don’t think it’s time for me to be a minister again, there are enough other options.”
When asked whether he did not want to be or was not offered, Goranov clarified: “Both”.
No coalition format is possible at this time
You will find out who our candidate for prime minister will be tomorrow because everyone has to learn the answer at the same time, he said on Sunday evening Tomislav Donchev in the program “120 minutes” on bTV.
He reiterated that the options are a strong party candidate such as Boyko Borisov or a more compromise figure with wider public support.
To the question, which will receive a mandate from the president tomorrow, he answered: “You’ll find out tomorrow, and not that there’s any result of mystery, it’s regular for all the media to learn it at the same time.”
The deputy chairman of GERB commented that they have the ambition to finish the procedure to the end, i.e. The candidate for Prime Minister should get the mandate, use a 7-day deadline and form the best possible cabinet.
In his words, a sufficient coalition format is not possible at the moment. The chasms that have been dug between their political forces are so great, and some have become hostages of their radicalized supporters, commented Donchev. He indicated, however, that he would use the week that comes after the handover of the mandate to be a final attempt to talk to perhaps everyone, and the basis of those talks should be a program of governance.