“The stakes in the parliamentary elections are huge. It is not whether to change or extend the current government, but whether to continue with the current governance model, which leads to the collapse of the state, corruption, poverty, waste, low efficiency of governance and the country’s increasingly lagging behind other countries. from the European Union.”
This was answered by President Rumen Radev after a journalistic question during his visit to Samokov. According to him, a number of parties do not focus on this major problem, but again slip on the tempting promises of salaries, retired payments and various social benefits.
“That is why Ms. Yotova and I came out with our message for a new Bulgaria with clearly formulated principles, priorities and a national goal – strengthening the statehood.”
The president said he expects the parties to decide whether to accept electoral reform as their immediate task in the new parliament, so as to ensure fair and accessible elections, whether they will be able to overcome their narrow party interests and formulate and implement a fairness pact., professionalism and competence in the nomination of government officials at the highest level, will they undertake decisive constitutional and legal changes so as to strengthen the rule of law, carry out adequate judicial reform and optimize the legislative process, and will find force to start a real fight against corruption. According to him, the parties must also announce whether they will do what is necessary for us to have freedom of speech and whether they will adopt a decisive policy of transparency in the management and prevention of theft.
The head of state also said that the parties must engage in these issues now, because after the elections it will be too late and if this does not happen, the reproduction of the vicious governing model is guaranteed and we will experience another disappointment.
“Whatever economic, social and any other policies are undertaken, they will again be doomed to failure, as the years have shown”, Radev said, noting that the implementation of these policies requires a solid foundation to be embodied in sound statehood.
Radev also commented on the veto of the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which was rejected by the parliament, pointing out that this is a temporary decision announced under the pressure of some conjuncture and will not exist in the future because it is contrary to the Constitution and basic human rights.
The head of state also commented on the tragedy with the 16-year-old boy, who died from an electric shock to a busy boulevard in Sofia. According to him, the lack of transparency, accountability and responsibility in a government leads to the fact that the institutions start working for certain circles and not in the public interest, and this leads to such ugly incidents. He expressed his condolences to the parents and relatives of the deceased young man.
