Equidistant PM is the only construction, even if it is a little closer to GERB. The important thing is to talk to such a person with management experience from now on.
– Mr. Kostov, what do you have to say to today’s politicians, who are in the midst of the 7th consecutive election campaign?
– That I really hope they learn from the past. Not to rely only on their mistakes in order to learn a lesson about what is good for Bulgaria. And from what has been done – from the positive things, but also from the mistakes especially.
– Do you see a way out of this situation – the political crisis that has dragged on for so long?
– I see many exits. There are currently many opportunities to form a government. Judging by the polls, there is even a possibility of a two-party coalition. And many opportunities for tripartite. I am surprised by those analysts who think that it is absolutely necessary to go to the next elections, that a government cannot be formed, that 4 parties or political formations are necessary. I don’t understand where they think it comes from, how they argue.
– Do you think that the political forces can find an equidistant prime minister?
– It’s a bit of an artificial formula. It is a question of a non-party person, as far as I understand, who has no commitment to follow only the policy and ideology of one of the formations that would enter a parliamentary majority in order to get the country out of the crisis. There are many such people. Now the question is to talk to them, because you see that many people have started to refuse, not all of them want to enter the government of the country, because it is not at all easy at the moment.
But there are such people, will they be a little closer to GERB, will they be independent. It is a big risk, for example, to elect a person who does not know what the executive power is. If you look at the end of my book, the structure of the executive branch is not simple at all, and the way it is managed is not within the power of everyone, especially people without political experience.
– Isn’t the equidistant prime an unstable construction?
– It is not a politically very stable construction, that is true. But according to the positions of the parties that will enter the parliament, it is the only possible one in my opinion.
– How do you learn compromises so that politicians can work together – what they haven’t been able to do for years?
– When the personal interest is abandoned, and the party interest remains in the background, and an effort is made that is in the name of all of us, in the interest of the whole society, of Bulgaria.
The ability to put this interest above others is by no means readily available, as there are vital interests of the parties who fear that if they compromise, they may disappear from the political scene. That is, there is a conflict with narrow representation. The task is not simple and the decision is difficult.
– Why did you donate your archive, are you also making an appeal to other politicians?
– My call is for everyone to systematize and hand over their archives. We were in the service of the public interest, we were not there for ourselves. If this public interest and this service is continued, then the natural end is that the result of what has been done should go to the state, and not remain in attics and private, inaccessible libraries, for it is nevertheless of value to all.
I have always known that I was temporarily at the service of this common interest of the people in Bulgaria, so this is a perfectly logical step for me.
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50 discs and 6 meters of paper archive were donated to the state by the former prime minister
Over 50 disks and paper documents with a total length of 6 linear meters were donated by Ivan Kostov to the State Agency “Archives”. The processing process will take at least 2 years, said its chairman Assoc. Mihail Gruev. The two started talking about donating the archive of the former prime minister and leader of the SDS 4 years ago. But Kostov wanted to finish his second book first. There is also a lost part, he said during the broadcast – in 1999, during a burglary at his home, the hard drive of his computer was stolen, so he had difficulty recovering documents from the decade 1989-1999. Then a flood damaged part of his library’s collection. But Kostov is adamant that the essential documents have been handed over to the agency.
Before that, only three other politicians from the transition had provided theirs: the late president Zhelyu Zhelev, the former prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg and the BSP politician Krasimir Premyanov, who for years headed the Union of Thracian Societies in Bulgaria. Precisely because of the lack of documents from the period, Kostov’s contribution is extremely valuable and provides the basis for writing his history, Assoc. Gruev emphasized.