Bulgaria's President: Current Govt Lacks Competence

Domestic | November 11, 2010, Thursday // 13:23|  views

Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, at the forum "Bulgaria - on the enxt day." Photo by BGNES

The country is suffering a crisis in the governance due to the deficit of competency, Bulgaria's Socialist President Georgi Parvanov stated at a forum dedicated to the start of a new formation called ABV.

Parvanov, who is former leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, convened on Thursday a national summit, called "Bulgaria – on the next day," on his political project named Alternative for Bulgarian Revival, the Bulgarian acronym being ABV (the first three letters of the Bulgarian alphabet).

The event marked the start of the ABV project, which would include representatives of many sectors - mayors, doctors, teachers, NGOs, educators, politicians, without their participation meaning a commitment from their own respective political parties.

One of the forum's organizers, Kostadin Paskalev, said that the project would not be a political party. Instead, in his words, the Socialists will discuss the situation in Bulgaria.

"The ABV project is, figuratively speaking, a territory of historic compromise. Bulgaria does not need a new left or right party. It needs a civil project, which includes left, right and centrist ideas," the President said.

Parvanov did not hide his discontent with the Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov's government.

"There is a deficit in the current government. Of course, no one was born with knowledge but I still think that capital should not be made out of ignorance. The leader does not have to know everything but he should be so much into the matter to be able to make an informed decision," the president said.

He added that another way would be to cover ignorance and lack of will with made-up scandals and arrogance.

"There is a constant angry pathos that might startle some people but has more and more started to trigger mockery. You can see that a solid hand without knowledge and competence, without a smart and a good management, becomes risky," Parvanov said.

According to the president, the current government is making firm and strong statements, only to deny them in the same manner later.

"The result of such policy is visible. Power management in the security sector and in the politics, combined with uncertainty and hesitation in the economic field, is risky for the country's stability," he said.

As reference to recent statements that the ABV project would divide the Socialists, Parvanov said that he was always trying to unite, rather than divide.

However, popular actor and ex Culture Minister, Stefan Danailov, has confessed that there was a tension in the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and it was caused by the president's project.

“We, in GERB, have been through the ABV a long time ago. We can already read and write,” stated Borisov's only comment on the newly established project.

The forum was organized by an action group, which includes Borislav Kitov, Vice President of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and a former MP, Prof. Grigor Gorchev, President of the Medical University in the city of Pleven, Prof. Vasil Prodanov, Director of the Philosophical Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Emil Kalo, former chairman of the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria Shalom, Miho Mihov, former Chair of Staff at the Army, former adviser to the president on military security in the country, former ambassador to Macedonia, Krasimir Petrov, former director of the General Directorate Border Police and a former head of the Special Anti-Terrorist Task Force (SOBT) and director of the Sofia Directorate of the Interior (SDVR), the athletes Yordan Yovchev and Valentin Yordanov and Mariana Todorova, expert in the President's administration.

Parvanov, who is former leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said the initiative would include representatives of many sectors - mayors, doctors, teachers, NGOs, educators, politicians, without their participation meaning a commitment from their own respective political parties.

Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has shrugged off the news about the new party as no threat whatsoever, and a sign the opposition is getting more and more divided, bud pointed out Bulgaria no longer has a real president.

The second term of the President Georgi Parvanov expires in January 2012 and he does not have the right to run for a third term.

Observers have commented that Bulgaria's president is obviously laying the foundations of a new political movement, which will counterbalance the conservative government and will allow him to continue to wield his influence even after he leaves the office of the highest state post next year.

Parvanov is one of the most loved politicians in the country, but he is also very controversial, as he has worked for the secret services during the communist regime and is believed to have contacts with people linked to the underworld.

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