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Kiril Petkov
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The caretaker Minister of Economy Kiril Petkov and the GERB MP Toma Bikov got into a direct dispute in the studio of “Panorama” because of the way the Bulgarian Development Bank is managed and the loans it distributes. The two also responded to each other on other topics, including healthcare.
“Zero loans from BDB have been distributed, there are no documents for two large banks yet. You found money, but you claimed that the state was ruined. Why are you reforming structures that are obviously profitable? On what principle did you appoint your friends to the BDB board?” in the studio of “Panorama” Tova Bikov, the caretaker Minister Kiril Petkov.
“The important thing is that every day we progress with something we have set as a goal,” Petkov said, adding that it does not matter whether the cabinet will run for another 2 days or a week.
When I entered the ministry 3 months ago, I found strange things – two companies for reclamation, dams, companies that have to build government complexes, so unusual things. A ministry of economy must be the engine of economic growth. And after we managed to assess for these few weeks what is happening, what we proposed is to work for the growth of Bulgaria, “Petkov said in response to a question from the presenter Boyko Vassilev.
According to Petkov, the government of the country is not a philosophy and in a short period of time the fate of Bulgaria can be changed. “I don’t know why the state collects 50 percent of the profits of all state-owned companies, except for the State Consolidation Company, there is a lack of transparency and public procurement. As of today, we are appointing another DCC member, we hope the board will elect him “, added the caretaker Minister of Economy.
He assured that the caretaker government had poured money into the economy, and he, as a minister, had not received a single call with instructions on how to do it. Petkov said, answering Bikov, that loans for BGN 200 million with an average loan amount of BGN 400,000 went to small and medium-sized businesses in 9 months, and not BGN 1 billion in 8 companies, as in the GERB government.
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