site.btaGERB's Borissov: "Unacceptable and Immature"

GERB leader Boyko Borissov said that a memorandum setting the Government's main goals for the next nine months proposed by Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), is "unacceptable and immature". The proposed deal was announced by CC-DB co-floor leaders Kiril Petkov and Atanas Atanassov on Tuesday evening and was circulated to the press later the same day.

Petkov said that one of the important items in this memorandum are the regulators, where the CC-DB and GERB-UDF should have equal quotas. The author's idea is that the document will be signed by the political leaders, and by Mariya Gabriel and Nikolay Denkov. The proposal has already been sent to Gabriel.

CC-DB suggested that if the two power-sharing coalitions fail to reach an agreement, early parliamentary elections should held simultaneously with the European elections.

Borissov commented for the press: "For me, from what they have written in the first ten lines - they read them to me - a two-in-one election is the absolutely logical conclusion of this non-coalition. I haven't read it because I don't have it. Deputy Prime Minister Mariya Gabriel has the memorandum and will probably make a statement. On behalf of GERB, I can say that this is not just unacceptable: it is immature. Such a document is drawn up by working committees, we did it once with the Reformist Bloc for about a month. This approach puts GERB in a position where it can't support anything."

"Sharing the regulators! What country with a rule of law do that?! I guess we are supposed to see this as a very generous proposal to GERB: two split the State with Kiril Petkov two-ways, judiciary and regulators. This is unprincipled. For nine months the made any changed they wanted and never thought a memorandum was needed," Borissov said.

He further asked who would seal the change "of the most important state agency, the State Financial Control Agency, what memorandum would determine that? Or the National construction Supervision Directorate, the Food Safety Agency and the changes in the Customs Agency where changes have been made and we only heard about it yesterday". 

The way Borissov sees the memorandum is a proposed deal to "turn a back on parliamentarianism, on the opposition, and agree to split 1:1 everything in the net seven years. At the same time [they want] the government for themselves with two-thirds of the ministers and two-thirds of the district governors".

Asked to comment the readiness of CC-DB to sit down and discuss the memorandum with GERB, Borissov said that it done before and not after the proposal is announced.