site.btaPresident Radev Comments on Friday's No-Confidence Motion against Denkov Cabinet

President Rumen Radev Saturday commented on the no-confidence motion against the Denkov Cabinet rejected by Parliament on Friday. He told journalists that it was obvious that the Cabinet would not collapse because the vested interests that bind the government are prevailing over “simulation” of reforms and prioritization.

Radev said that the problem is that the government follows not one but two programmes. “The first and official one, similarly to the government programme and the legislative programme of the ruling majority, is being implemented with questionable efficiency both in terms of quantity and quality. The reason is because this programme is entirely subordinate to an implicit programme announced in that recording [made at an online meeting of Continie the Change’s National Council in May by now independent MP Radostin Vassilev] - a programme for seizing the levers of power and working in favour of our own companies,” the President added.

What he described as even worse is that “the most vital part of this implicit programme is the ultimatum” of forgiving coalition partners’ old sins and clearing their names in order to preserve “the integrity of the assemblage”.

Radev said that all this is masked behind daily pledges of loyalty to Euro-Atlanticism, which, in his words, hinder Bulgaria's European development because “they continuously generate Euroscepticism and thwart our full-fledged European integration”.

“Apparently, this is what the National Assembly decided yesterday - that we should continue to watch, even to enjoy, the mastery of this ugly political theatre that repels people of sound mind,” the President added.