site.btaIndependence and Teamwork Are the Caretaker Economy Minister's Conditions for Participation in New Cabinet

July 27 (BTA) - Independence and teamwork are the two
conditions that caretaker Economy Minister Kiril Petkov sets for
 potentially agreeing to join the next government - if he is
ever offered a ministerial position in the government that the
new Parliament is expected to form. Petkanov said that to
journalists here on Tuesday after conferring three Class A
certificates under the Investment Promotion Act. 

Petkov specified that the Finance and the Economy Ministries
should be a packaged deal. "According to me, we have a  team
that is ready to enter [the next government] if given the
opportunity, but this is just hypothetical, no one has discussed
 that with us," he said, adding that he has not been offered
other post or invited to be part of the next cabinet.

At an early stage of the life of the new parliament, Petkov was
offered to be a government minister by There Is Such a People,
the largest group in the legislature, which will be the first to
 get a mandate from the President to try to form a government.
The Ministers of Finance and of Education in the caretaker
government, Assen Vassilev and Nikolai Denkov, were also offered
 ministerial jobs. All of them declined and it transpired that
they did so because Assev Vassilev disagreed with There Is Such
a People on some priorities in the portfolio he was offered.

On Tuesday, Petkov presented with certificates Trakya Glass
Bulgaria EAD, Gotmar EOOD, and Teklas - Bulgaria EAD for
investments totalling 55.182 million leva and expected to create
 240 jobs. These investments will be made in Turgovishte
(Northeastern Bulgaria), Suedinenie (South Central Bulgaria),
and Vratsa (Northwestern Bulgaria), regions which need to step
up local economic growth, the Minister noted during the
ceremony. In his words, each of these investments has export
potential and it is precisely such companies that should be
encouraged, because Bulgarians standard of living depends on
export generating value added and based across the whole of
Bulgaria.
 
Trakya Glass Bulgaria invests 27.382 million leva in a plant in
Turgovishte for final processing of flat glass produced by the
company entirely for export, Petkov explained. Gotmar makes two
investments: in electric appliances and in a photovoltaic
station, with an expansion of the company's production in
Suedinenie and 90 per cent of it being meant for export. Teklas
- Bulgaria invests 10 million leva in expanding its production
in Vratsa which will be entirely for export.

NV/DS




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