Bulgaria Ex PM Stanishev: No Way to Impeach President

Politics » DOMESTIC | March 8, 2010, Monday // 14:43
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Ex PM Stanishev: No Way to Impeach President Bulgaria's ex PM and Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev presented women journalists with flowers for March 8. Photo by BGNES

As the conflict between the Bulgarian President and Finance Minister continues raging, ex PM Sergey Stanishev threw his weight behind the head of state.

“All this noise and warring among the institutions, which is inspired by the GERB government, is a three-ring circus,” Stanishev declared at a news conference Monday.

The conflict between President Georgi Parvanov and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov emerged after Djankov’s participation in a Nova TV talk show last week in which he hinted that Parvanov was a secret billionaire.

Subsequently, Parvanov and Djankov met in order to resolved their conflict but the meeting led nowhere, with the Presidency releasing a transcript of the conversation on its website. The ruling party GERB and its rightist allies reacted strongly, some of their representatives demanding Parvanov’s impeachment because he allegedly overstepped his powers.

“What the GERB party is doing with their threats for impeach is absurd,” declared Stanishev, who inherited Parvanov as the head of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2002, as the latter was elected President.

“The Finance Minister takes part in entertaining talks shows, slaps remarks about the President, and is constantly generating scandals between the various institutions. He’s gotta go,” Stanishev stated.

The BSP Chair repudiated the reports that President Parvanov was preparing to set up a new leftist party once his second term expires in 2012. Stanishev believes Parvanov’s actions can in no way be construed as a preparation for such a new political project; rather, he is said to be concerned about what is going on in the state.

“I don’t see what the big deal is about the publication of the transcript from a formal conversation,” Stanishev said pointing out that the constant scandals created by the ruling party helped it distract people’s attention from public debates and hot topics.

Commenting on Monday’s decision of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to unblock BGN 350 M from the reserves of the National Health Insurance Fund in order to pay the delayed sums owed by the state to the general practitioners, who are already rising in protest, Stanishev said that two weeks ago the Socialist Party proposed to unblock BGN 450 M in order to rectify the situation earlier.

“The policies of the Borisov government are going to reduce the people to poverty. Last year the National Employment Plan had a budget of BGN 190 M, with a much lower unemployment rate, and this year it is only BGN 65 M,” he declared.

At the end of his news conference suggested presented all women journalists with red roses on the occasion of March 8.

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