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Movement for Rights, Freedoms: Cabinet's Governance Programme Is Too Ambitious, Chaotic, Lacks Implementation Guarantees

Sofia, January 27 (BTA) - The Cabinet's governance programme,
entitled Programme for Stable Development of the Republic of
Bulgaria in the 2014-2018 Period, is too ambitious and does not
give any guarantees for its implementation by the end of the
mandate, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Deputy Chairman
Aliosman Imamov told a news conference after a meeting of his
party's Central Operative Bureau and the MRF Parliamentary Group
on Tuesday.

According to Imamov, the governance programme is chaotic and the
priorities listed are too many. The document lacks benchmarks
for the programme's implementation and a financial assessment of
this implementation. The governance programme features ideas
and topics elaborated by almost all political parties in the
last years, including ideas from the programme of the Plamen
Oresharski cabinet, as well as the MRF's platform in the last
general elections, Imamov said.

Yordan Tsonev MP of MRF said that the governance programme was
elaborated in such a way as to not be criticized: it offers
something for everyone. In his words, when everything is a
priority, there actually are no priorities. "What concerns us
the most is the fact that there is a whole chapter dedicated to
the management of the government debt and the taking of loans,
there is no information on how to prevent the country's entry
into a debt spiral," Tsonev said.

Hasan Ademov MP of MRF said that in the social policy sphere,
the governance programme lists 15 priorities and 32 targets,
which is a lot given the main problems in this sphere. The
document gives priority to the three-child-family model without
clarifying why the two-child-family model has not been
prioritized instead. There is no clear idea on whether the
pension model will continue to function as a three-pillar or
will be changed, yet the governance programme talks about an
improvement of the pension reform, Ademov noted.