Bulgaria’s President: The Caretaker Government will Not Provide Ukraine with Fighter Jets, Anti-Aircraft Defense, or Tanks

"As long as the caretaker government is in charge, Bulgaria will not provide Ukraine with fighter jets, anti-aircraft missile systems, tanks, or armored personnel carriers." This was stated by President Rumen Radev.

He defined this as a sovereign decision and called on the parties participating in the elections to clarify their position on this matter to their voters right now.

Radev confirmed the non-participation of Bularia in the general European procurement of ammunition for Ukraine and pointed out that Bulgaria will support European diplomatic efforts to restore peace.

President Rumen Radev participated in the "Anticorruption and National Security" conference.

He also pointed out that the state's finances are stable, but if the future deputies give in to populism, bad scenarios can also occur.

"The Finance Ministry is keeping the public finances stable. I want to congratulate it for delivering record collections and ensuring annual increases in pensions and payments. Strong speculation is that there will be a cut in wages and pensions, strong speculation is that there will be a change in the exchange rate of the leva against the euro and some new loans from the IMF will be reached. But this is a warning that if the populist policies imposed by the previous several parliaments continue, we may eventually reach one of these bad scenarios. We are far from them at the moment, but it depends on the responsibility of our people's representatives that this does not happen.

Can you imagine if the caretaker government in the last National Assembly had succumbed to this populist pressure from the parliamentary rostrum and submitted a budget for which they were going to instantly increase spending by 10...

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