27.11.2024
It is just a month after the latest early parliamentary elections, and the opening session of the National Assembly is still going on. We all are eager to see political parties reach a consensus, form a majority and a regular government and start addressing the problems that Bulgarian citizens face. The comment was made at the start of today’s cabinet meeting by Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev. He called on politicians to stop the ping-pong with problems and the speculation about the caretaker cabinet. “If they get down to the solution of people’s problems, I think this will leave them no time for speculation,” Mr. Glavchev added.
The Prime Minister discerned a positive message about the operation and the nature of the caretaker government in what President Rumen Radev said during his visit to Singapore and Vietnam. “The President said that there is no political will behind the caretaker government,” the Prime Minister recalled and commented that it is now clear that the caretaker government has the willpower to work. Dimitar Glavchev noted that he perceives as a positive assessment that fact that three ministers were invited to be members of the President’s delegation.
The cabinet meeting at the Council of Ministers building is followed by a meeting that the Prime Minister called to discuss the state of preparedness of the border-crossing checkpoints with Romania and Greece to start operating subject to Bulgaria’s full accession to Schengen from 1 January next year.
“Last Friday we were given a positive signal from Budapest about land border Schengen which we would not have received if there was no trust in the caretaker government. The results achieved since December last year and January this year were recognized. In two thirds of this period it was the caretaker government in office,” the Prime Minister recalled. He emphasized that if Europe did not trust the government this would not have happened. “The performance of the heavily criticized Ministry of Interior was recognized; Kalin Stoyanov and Atanas Ilkov were the ministers in that period, the most criticized ministers in every respect,” the Prime Minister expressed his bewilderment while he emphasized the contribution of the Ministry of Defense to the protection of the EU’s external border. Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev noted that the possible full accession of Bulgaria to the Schengen area brings undeniable benefits to all citizens, in particular to the businesses and to the holiday industry in particular. The final decision is to be taken on 12 December, he recalled.
