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Former Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov (2009-2013) has vowed not to resort to populism ahead of the country’s snap elections in May.
"I cannot give them anything optimistic, to please their wish to hear what they want to hear,” Borisov said Wednesday in an interview for Reuters.
"Every nation chooses alone whether to crash or not,"he noted.
Borisov has described the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s promise to create 250 000 jobs as unrealistic.
The former Prime Minister has reiterated that his party would keep a flat corporate and income tax rate of 10% and push on with using EU cash for road building and energy efficiency combined with private investment in areas such as making car parts.
Borisov has also told Reuters that, said if his center-right GERB won 100 from a total 240 seats in the May 12 poll - or 42 percent - he would aim to form a government, probably with unofficial backing from smaller parties.
"It will be very, very bad if Bulgaria fails to form a government. But it will be worse if it forms a government at any cost,” he has observed.
The center-right government of former PM Boyko Borisov resigned amid massive anti-poverty protests in February, prompting President Rosen Plevneliev to adjourn the Parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule snap elections for May 12.
GERB has a slight edge over the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, according to polls.
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