Assen Vassilev, Prime Minister, a minority government without the BSP, an attempt for a new one in this parliament with the mandate of the ITN – this was the political rumor hours before the letter from the Ukrainian president
How to reform the government without holding early elections again, if the guns shoot the coalition and Kiril Petkov’s government falls?
There were various scenarios for this in the political rumor until the start of Wednesday’s parliamentary session – first after the Easter holidays, during which the quadruple coalition frantically sought a reconciliation formula for the BSP to remain in power.
And to give a patron for Ukraine, we go out, warned and repeated the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Socialists Cornelia Ninova.
The situation in power was not clear until midnight on Tuesday against Wednesday. The leaders gathered at a coalition council after 8 p.m., and there were no public statements. BSP deputies shared anxiously that no definite decisions were made at either the parliamentary group or the Positano party meeting. And they expected Kiril Petkov to offer a compromise option that would satisfy Ninova.
According to reliable sources
it’s tuesday there were long ones conversations between Volodymyr Zelensky and Kiril Petkov
The Ukrainian president clearly understood the turbulent situation in which the Bulgarian government found itself, and he himself wanted to inform our parliament about the help he relied on. Petkov and his ministers were passengers – this was also seen in the European Commission, and they began to anxiously insist on reliable forecasts of who will replace them.
This led to the letter that saved the quadruple partnership. At around 8.30 am on Wednesday – half an hour before the start of the spring session of the parliament, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Vitaliy Moskalenko submitted a letter from his government to the National Assembly. In it, President Zelenski gave the wording that left the quadruple coalition intact.
Faced with the possibility of a new caretaker government with an unpredictable foreign policy, and in the early elections to win pro-Russian political projects, Zelensky gave up pressure for arms aid.
The first plan B
was for the government to stay in the minority if the Reds really left. With the proviso that their deputies continue to support key decisions. But even with the huge risk for everything important in the country to rely on the votes of GERB and MRF – unacceptable for Kiril Petkov and Asen Vassilev and members of the DB and ITN.
The Socialists themselves realized that in conditions of war, gas crisis and inflation, such a push into political uncertainty would bring negatives to the party. Her peripheral electorate, which has been shaken by other Russophile parties, may appreciate the BSP’s battle against the provision of weapons, but others will point the finger at it as the culprit for another state of administrative chaos. Among other things, such a decision must go through the National Council of the BSP, where the domestic opposition, although already less represented in the plenary session, will inevitably hear very serious accusations against the party leadership.
Getting the BSP out of shape would also go through updating the coalition agreement, which in turn carries a huge risk that the partners will start bidding with new claims and this will overthrow the government.
Asen Vassilev to change
Kiril Petkov as Prime Minister
– This rumor was especially relevant in recent days, after the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance came on the scene on the topic of Russia and Ukraine. He called the president’s position “disgraceful”, he explained how we are coming out of the crisis with the suspended Russian gas and for the first time since their appearance as a tandem with Petkov allowed himself to be the stronger speaker of the two.
Vassilev, Prime Minister, would ease tensions over Petkov’s remarks on another supercritical issue for the coalition and society – whether to lift the veto on the start of Northern Macedonia’s EU membership talks.
Cyril and I have known each other for 17 years, so this type of thing – trying to drive a wedge between us – will not work. And I personally believe that
in the position I am in at the moment, I am much more useful to Bulgaria,
was the short but categorical comment of Asen Vassilev in front of “24 Chasa”.
The third commented scenario in different parties is an attempt for a cabinet with the mandate of ITN, after the roulette went through GERB and they refused it. Part of the opposition relied on such a development, and the good contacts between Rumen Radev and Slavi Trifonov gave grounds for the fourth political force to win the last term.
The most unacceptable for almost everyone in parliament – both the government and the opposition – were early elections, but mostly caretaker governments re-appointed by the president.
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