site.btaUPDATED In Cabinet-Forming Talks, TISP Find they Have No Insurmountable Differences with CC-DB

After a meeting with There Is Such a People (TISP) here on Friday, Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Deputy Floor Leader Bozhidar Bozhanov said that his coalition will familiarize their collective bodies with the priorities formulated by TISP as the holder of the third and last cabinet-forming mandate and will make public their decision in the coming days.

TISP Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov asked CC-DB to make a decision within a reasonable time as the "mandate-fulfilling procedure does not last indefinitely". "I did not find major differences between us," he added.

TISP believe that the draft amendments to the Whistleblowers Protection Law moved by CC-DB must be passed and in turn said they were drafting revisions to the Code of Civil Procedure, The Bar Act and the Family Code.

The mandate holder also set forth their priorities in healthcare, education, sports, regional policy, defence and finance. They believe that the flat tax must stay. They assured CC-DB that foreign policy will remain clearly Euro-Atlantic-oriented.

Considering the recent Constitutional Court decision, Nadezhda Yordanova of CC-DB asked whether TISP agree to a political objective of working for a restriction of the powers of the prosecutor general and judicial independence guaranteed by means of a division of the Supreme Judicial Council. The second question is whether they have a view on a way of containing the problem with the prosecution service concealing the spending of funds in the form of public secret.   

Yordanov stressed that they have no differences about the need of curbing the powers of the prosecutor general and are ready to discuss judicial independence guarantees.

After the meeting, the TISP Floor Leader commented that they have no unsurmountable differences. "It is quite nomal that we should hold different viewpoints on certain issues, but these are not options that we cannot discuss," he said.

"Tomorrow's meeting with GERB will be very interesting so as to find out whether Boyko Borissov's party will take a statesmanlike approach after everything they said about the country being in a crisis and that a parliament-elected cabinet would start addressing the issues, or whether they will send the country to yet another round of [early parliamentary] elections," Yordanov added.

Earlier in the day, his parliamentary group consulted Vazrazhdane about support for a cabinet formed on the third mandate.