I would start with a counter-question – why did the chairman of the NHIF have to be replaced days before the end of the National Assembly? Why did we have to repeat what happened with the Audit Chamber? Rosen Zhelyazkov committed gross violations of order, gross violations of the Constitution. We had to give some sign that the rules had to be followed. This is what former Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said in the program “Face to Face” on BTV, when he was asked why the Speaker of the Parliament Rosen Zhelyazkov was released early the day before the dissolution of the National Assembly.
Commenting on the words of the chairman of the PG of the DPS, Delyan Peevski, “We have a poodle coalition. We saw the unlimited cache of the poodle coalition”, Denkov stated: “Peevski can say many things, but he is the person who sits in the front row of the parliament and is proven corrupt under American and British law. Let him answer why he cannot travel to the US and to the UK. He makes such comments to avoid the opening of these questions.”
We started the government negotiations with Borisov, but every time we negotiated with Borisov, it turned out that Peevski was there before Borisov. We talked with Peevski because he had taken his place at the table. It’s like you invite the neighbor and he comes with two more neighbors. The question was either we form a regular government, or there is an interim government, the Keoto concludes the contract with “Botash”, according to which we pay one million BGN every day. The former prime minister stressed that the person who concluded this contract set extremely unfavorable conditions for Bulgaria.
We put a program on the table, worked on it until the end of December and managed to get some good things done. After that, when the other side asked to go according to their program, we did not agree and they made up an excuse with Kalin Stoyanov to go to elections. All along, the option to work on the original agreement was on the table – just us and Maria Gabriel swapping places, but they didn’t want that. Every day it was a huge struggle to push these people to follow this program and by the end of December we were succeeding. I passed Peevski’s stupid insinuations and Borisov’s lies in order to do my job, commented Nikolay Denkov.
I have always said that as long as we deliver, it makes sense to manage, he added.
The government fell after the changes to the Constitution when the laws were to be put into effect. It turned out that for Borisov and Peevski it was not OK for the judicial reform to happen, Denkov pointed out.
The idea of the changes for the caretaker government was to prevent the president from doing whatever he wanted, to have a way to control the government. Because the management of one person gives results like the contract with “Botash”, he noted.
As for Asen Vasilev, the story with customs is absolutely fabricated. If someone claims to be a patronized channel for smuggling, they should prove it, the former prime minister also said.
