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The President: Ensuring continuity in governance is the great task the new government is facing

The new government, with its priorities and teams, has a great task to fulfill – to ensure continuity in the established priorities. This is what President Rosen Plevneliev told Bulgarian journalists in Stuttgart, where Plevneliev is on a working visit, after he finished his meeting with the justice minister of Baden-Wurttemberg. The President called on “the new and the old government to sit down and talk about everything on which work is done in a reasonable manner, so that continuity on it can be ensured.”

“We are at a crucial stage of planning the EU funds both from the old and the new financial framework for the next programming period. We are obliged to guarantee such continuity and I hope that this will happen,” the Head of State emphasized. On 28 May the president will receive the candidate for Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, who will present to him the results of the exploratory mandate for forming a government that he was handed by the Head of State.

The Head of State reiterated once again that he would not be involved in arrangements and the government will not be formed in the presidential institution. “I wish competent professionals are found, clear priorities are set and results to the benefit of the nation are achieved,” Rosen Plevneliev further said. “We have set a record for a quick formation of a government and handed two mandates within a single day. If I had followed the deadlines stipulated in the constitution, we were to form a government within a month’s time,” the President further commented, replying to a journalist’s question.

Together with Reiner Stickelberger, justice minister of Baden-Wurttemberg, the President debated the first projects for the implementation of the Danube strategy in the sectors of internal affairs and local government.  Baden Wurttemberg is Bulgaria’s big trade partner and the two sides enjoy bilateral trade standing at one billion euros per year. In 2012 the trade grew by 13 percent, which is a strong stimulus for more investments, the President pointed out after the meeting.

In Stuttgart Rosen Plevneliev will have a meeting with Guido Wolf, president of Baden-Wurttemberg’s Landtags and with representatives of the big German business circles, which are planning to make investments in Bulgaria. “Although we should be active, have good communication, strengthen public trust in us, we should also offer investors specific prospects so that they come to Bulgaria,” the Head of State further stated.

The delegation headed by President Rosen Plevneliev also includes Mitko Vasilev, manager of the German-Bulgarian Commerce and Industry Chamber, Til Truckenmuller, honorary consul of Bulgaria in Baden Wurttemberg and founder of the Automotive Cluster Bulgaria, and the secretaries of the Head of State.