Bulgaria: Kiril Petkov Presented the Cabinet and the New Policies

The candidate for Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Ministers and the ministers from the draft cabinet "Petkov" arrived at the National Assembly, where Kiril Petkov listed the names of each one, BGNES reported.

On Monday we will appear in the National Assembly for voting on the new composition of the Council of Ministers. Our ambitions are to manage for 4 years and to complete all the tasks we have set under the motto "zero tolerance for corruption", said Kiril Petkov.

There will no longer be non-transparent funding from someone's ministry to someone's media. We will want to give a clear idea to the Bulgarian people what funds go to which media, said Petkov.

We have a special annex to the coalition agreement on the first legislative actions we will take. Our first priority will be the price of electricity - to be reserved for household consumers, for business to be within acceptable limits. The second focus is the covid crisis - the level of vaccination will have to rise dramatically. The CCCCIAP law will be one of the top priorities in the beginning.

Each minister comes with his own team. They will be able to appoint their deputy ministers. Regulators - they will be given real strength so that every minister can be sure that he will be under supervision.

Petkov announced that the coalition partners have agreed that the chairmen of the committees in the National Assembly will not be from the same quota as the line minister. For the district governors, the agreement is to respect the proportion as with the ministers.

We hope to have a constructive way of working with the opposition. They are obliged to tell us every wrong step we make, Petkov added.

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