The deputy ministers - the latest sacrament

The Tsar-Prime Minister was right in saying that it is hard for him to change when he is 64 years old and we will have to get used to his way of working.

We are already getting used to that and we can tell how the latest government conspiracy, called deputy ministers, will finish. It will end just like the mystery called "ministers." First of all, there will be a turnover of dozens of names. After that floods of slandering reports will start to appear against these names and this will form the file of the candidate.

In the end the tsar will seclude himself in his room in the Vrana residence, will interestedly turn over a pile of names, and then will take totally different names out of his sleeve.
-24 Chassa

Moratorium over truth

A supreme public prosecutor voiced his outrage yesterday at journalists' lack of patriotism. Instead of attracting tourists, they write that hotels are bugged and that a number of politicians, together with all of their relatives, are just begging to be prosecuted.

According to this logic it should not be written how many people have turned off their central heating - it smells like poverty and Europeans are scared of poverty. Not a word about the fact that thousands of people are using trash bins as "mini-markets." Not a line for unemployment - it repels foreign guests.

We should keep silent about the politicians - they frequently come in and out of power and this startles the foreign investor. We must also be quiet about prosecutions - about the criminals who always go unpunished.

Obviously for some people the so-called New Time is the out-dated legacy of Todor Zhivkov: let us bow down until we get into Europe, but no one believes in naked words, even if they are offered with sugar on top.
-Trud

Priority number 1: Clarifying the priorities

The new ministers left contradictory feelings behind them after their first public appearances as representatives of the executive power. On the one hand, there were indications of professionalism, knowledge of the problems and the ambition to resolve them quickly and reasonably. On the other, there were swelling misapprehensions from the lack of a united line of action, of a clear model on economic growth and improvement of the standard of living.

Promises like "gifts for everybody with all one's heart" are an inevitable evil during an election campaign, but they are also part of the rules of the game and that is why they are not a drastic problem. Although when these promises continue to come from the mouths of elected ministers, when these ministers use the word priority dozens of times in each statement they make, things start to seem problematic. Not for each minister personally, but for the cabinet as a whole, for the economy as a whole, for business as a whole, and for households as a whole.

The tactic "everything is a priority" was made a cult by the Union of Democratic Forces and proved untenable. This happened not because the UDF could not make a reality out of it, but because there was no way it could have become a reality.

The program for ruling, which the new cabinet is starting to prepare, is a real chance for priorities to be clarified and ranked. On this basis the contours of a clear economic model could be delineated. After that the whole program for ruling will have to be urgently subordinated to this model, without any detours in one or another populist direction.
-Kapital

For the king, Kostov and the fires

In the UtDF's view about the fires, expressed yesterday by MP Alexander Pramatarski, is hidden the basic difference between the old and new rulers. The disasters chief in the Kostov cabinet blamed the new cabinet and the king for the state burning, and lack of order. There's no commission, no sessions, no worry, no minister arriving with unbuttoned shirt at the disaster area. Simply put - there are fires, and no order.

At the beginning, the fires were left to burn and the causes were investigated quietly. No unnecessary showiness was applied. No public effect searched. With or without order, the fires subdued. The approach was different, but the result was the same.

When Kostov was here, there were fires, but there was order. With Simeon there's no order, but there are fires. This is the damage of the unrealized coalition. If NMSII and UtDF were united now, there could be order and no fires.
-24 Chassa