When NDSV was in charge, there were great staff and those were some of the best years for Bulgaria.

I have never left NDSV.

Even Slavi Trifonov did not ask me to leave the party when he proposed me as a minister.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nikolay Vassilev said this to BNT

Nikolay Vasilev Vasilev is a Bulgarian politician from the National Movement "Simeon" on the occasion of Prof. Ognyan Gerdzhikov's words that the party is returning to politics. 

"The people in the Gabrovski cabinet are completely decent. There are parties that are dissatisfied with everything and will always be against whatever is proposed. I would be happy as a citizen to have a government," he commented. 

Vasilev said that in this situation of the country it is better to have some government than none. 

"There was no government in Bulgaria that believed that we should enter the Eurozone and made a public campaign to inform people."

"We economists are also to blame. There is no high inflation after the adoption of the euro in any country that has adopted the euro. The highest inflation in Europe at the moment is in Hungary, which has not adopted the euro. Certainly wages and incomes of people will grow. People will get richer. Prices will not rise because of the euro," assured Vassilev, who was Minister of Economy in the period 2001-2003 in the government of Simeon of Saxe-Coburg.

Vassilev said it is not certain whether we will become members of the Eurozone in 2024: "We don't have a clear political will. You see they don't even want us in Schengen."

Nikolay Vassilev

NDSV