site.btaGovernment Adopts Governing Programme, State Budget, Survives Two No-confidence Votes in Its First 100 Days in Power - PM Zhelyazkov

It is very important, when we talk about the 100 days of this government, to bear in mind that it adopted its programme, budget and survived two votes of no confidence, which were against the clear political goal that this government has set itself, which has been formulated and which will be followed until its successful implementation, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said at the beginning of the regular government meeting on Wednesday.

Zhelyazkov told the ministers that it was important for them to follow very clearly the vision and priorities they had set themselves in the governing programme. He advised them that the administration should be the executor of their political vision. Communicate very clearly with the public what the priorities are, what the stage of implementation is, what the resources are, because it is only in this dialogue with the public that trust is built or broken, the Prime Minister said.

When President Roosevelt, in a radio address back in 1933, gave the definition of his government and the direction it would take, he also introduced the 100-day rule, Zhelyazkov said. But 100 days is a term in which the rule is not to give tolerance, but to look back and see whether the government has succeeded in defining its political capital and what the public perception is, Zhelyazkov noted.