site.btaPeevski Asked If His Party Would Potentially Have Cabinet Ministers, He Says It Is "Always Ready to Run Bulgaria to People's Benefit"

MRF - New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski was asked Thursday if his party will have its own ministers in a potential Cabinet reshuffle. He said they are "always ready to run the country to the benefit of the people". "If we have to share the responsibility of government and GERB feel this as a burden, we are ready to take that responsibility," he said in the corridors of Parliament. 

He also said that his party "is always ready to negotiate". "You have seen how long we have been supporting this Cabinet without asking anything in return, just for the people. We are ready to continue doing that - or to share the responsibility. We have a strong back, we have proven capable of taking responsibility."

Asked whether he has been invited to meet with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, he said that he had spoken to him. "We are waiting for them to decide. By Monday, they would presumably make a decision about what to do."

Peevski also said that "everything is in the hands of [GERB leader Boyko] Borissov: whether he will push the country in the abyss".

He called "outright populism" the decision of President Rumen Radev to use his own car when traveling with his staff, in solidarity with his staff after Parliament changed the law and barred them from the transport services of the National Service for Protection. "Rumen needs to get off the [official] cars because what he is doing now is establishing a party of his own. I have information from local sources, my party structures are telling me that," said the MRF - New Beginning leader, who has consistently been referring to the President by his given name. He said that the President should come down as head of State to work on his political project, and go to elections.