Assen Vasilev: Don’t squeeze them to arrest me because I have done nothing and I can prove it

« The arrest of my security guard Lachezar Stavrev is not directed against me. If the goal was me, they would have arrested me. They do not squeeze them to arrest me because they know that I have done nothing and can prove it. » Former Finance Minister and current MP from « We continue the change – Democratic Bulgaria » Assen Vasilev told this to Nova Television today.

« In order for a professional to do the job, the team is important and even more important than the team is what focus on his work is given by the political leadership. » Thus, Vasilev answered the question of whether the director of the National Revenue Agency Rumen Special, who he appointed to the post remains a professional.

« I believe that there are interests in politics, friendships are out of politics. I have a small number of friend and they have not changed whether I am in power or not, » the MP said in response to another question. He also said he did not know Vasil Bozhkov.

Kiselova did not make a random sword mistake

Assen Vasilev’s actions of Mrs. Kiselova are quite immense. It doesn’t seem good for me for a technical reason to push a parliamentary group. Vasilev does not think this is a random mistake. Vasilev specified that PP-DB withdraws its support for it.

« We were heard of two things about the budget, for which a lot of noise was raised and they collected a lot of public support. The first was the increase in pensions under the Swiss rule, that is, by 8.2%. The other we were heard were free medicines for children up to 7 years old, » Vassilev said.

According to him, this was not enough to support the budget because it had an excess of BGN 7 billion of loans, which would be given to the bank for the development of state-owned enterprises. « The next scandalous thing is the other texts for opaque spending of the funds from the capital program. There is nothing to talk about in the mail, this is state communism in the worst way, » the former finance minister stressed.

The revenue part of the budget carries many risks

As a major budget problem, he also cited the refusal for the fourth time private hospitals to apply public procurement when spending money at the Health Insurance Fund. « This alone would save BGN 100 million, » Asen Vasilev stressed.

Asked if this budget would put Bulgaria in the euro area, he pointed out that it has great risks in its revenue part, and this is the reason why it cannot be answered categorically affirmative to the question. According to Assen Vasilev, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov is willing to bring Bulgaria into the euro area, but he is not sure if the Prime Minister will find support for it.

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