Stanishev Extends Brotherly Socialist Advice to Malta Labor Party

ormer Bulgarian PM Sergey Stanishev has attended the general conference of the Malta Labor Party. Photo by BGNES

Sergey Stanishev, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former PM of Bulgaria, has been a special guest of the annual conference of the Malta Labor Party.

In his address to the socialists in Malta, Stanishev, who headed the Bulgarian government of the three-way coalition in 2005-2009, encouraged the young Malta Labor Party leader Joseph Muscat.

He warned the Maltese not to fall for people saying that Joseph Muscat was too young to become Prime Minister or that he was not experienced.

"They did the same with me when I was just 38 and embarked on the electoral campaign. But we won and in four years in government we delivered. We doubled pensions, lowered taxes and reduced the country's debt by two thirds, now standing at 15 per cent of GDP. Joseph is well known in Europe and he has a strong and united party with a mix of experience and wisdom of the older generation and energy of the younger generation, giving hope to the people of Malta," he said to loud applause, the Times of Malta reported.

The statement of the Bulgarian Socialist Party dedicated to Stanishev's visit to Malta is focused on his dissing of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his ruling center-right party GERB as well as of the entire European right.

Stanishev told the Malta labor that the European socialists and social-democrats seek ways to defend the poor and middle class, while the rightists use the market as excuse as well as for cover-ups and manipulations.

In La Valetta, he accused the Borisov Cabinet in Bulgaria of denying the pensioners a raise, while making the highway construction more expensive and spending more on the administration. He also reminded that another rightist government (of PM Ivan Kostov – 1997-2001) privatized Bulgaria's national airlines for a very small sum.

"In Bulgaria, the government says it doesn't have money to pay people's wages and make up for price increases but it has enough money for a new exhibition hall. Does this remind you of anything? In Bulgaria the government is increasing by ?70 million salaries of the central administration," Stanishev said.

He argued that Europe can be changed for the better only by having more socialist and leftist prime ministers.

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