“Bulgaria has been in a permanent crisis for quite some time. These frequent elections are destroying the country’s financial stability, as evidenced by the latest data from the Ministry of Finance. No one is responsible for a long period of time, everyone wants to be good today. Accordingly, they ruin the stability of the country. According to estimates, there should be a BGN 18 billion deficit next year, which is a huge burden,” said former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov in the program “In Focus with Laura Krumova” on Nova TV.
In what Ivan Kostov wrote in the book, it is mentioned that at one point some of the purest voices of democracy moved away from him and the SDS. “One Kiril Marichkov was a convinced democrat who did not back down. Society was not ready, it thought that everything would somehow become much easier, it would not pay a harsh price for this transformation. Many people continued in the old way. “Even though there was a democratic community that led the reforms, from which I and Kiril Marichkov are descended,” he added.
“Kyril Marichkov was a person who knew how to inspire. His soul was music. We have been together many times, we have many dear memories,” commented the former prime minister on the occasion of the musician’s death.
“I had very high hopes that Bulgaria’s membership in NATO and the European Union would greatly help the country to complete its process of democracy and build an order based on the law. I said then that it is not the European funds that are important, but the order,” he added.
“In the last two years, seeing the attitude of the West towards the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine, I expected a much stronger resistance and support, as well as a much faster mobilization of the military-industrial complexes. I thought that the support would not waver and weaken,” Kostov pointed out.