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DimanaT — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:13:48 +0000

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Bulgarian football is in a deep crisis.

Former Manchester United star Dimitar Berbatov to CNN

Yes, I was informed that during the street violence the interior minister was at the movies. At this time there was a meeting of the Council of Ministers and the deputy minister was present instead. I had to tell him to leave the meeting and do his job.

Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on the whereabouts of Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov during the violent clashes between football fans and the police in Sofia

I was neither in a bar, nor in a disco.

Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov on his whereabouts during the clashes of football fans with the police

This is not the Boyko Borisov I decided to follow 20 years ago. This is someone else. I want the old Borisov back. With him at the helm, we used to win.

Vezhdi Rashidov, former culture minister for GERB, on his party's support for the current coalition government

We are building five highways at a time. This is not how things should be done.

Andrey Tsekov, minister of regional development and public works

Are there any people left in the Russian Embassy? The Bulgarian government expelled so many that there is no one to do the mucking.

Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of Vazrazhdane

At 7.30 pm, while Sofia was burning, I got an email from Sofia's mayor inviting me to a meeting. Instead of taking care of his city, he was writing me emails.

Boyko Borisov, leader of GERB

I appeal to protesters to keep cool. Trash bins, city infrastructure and police vans are not to blame for the plight of Bulgarian football.

Vasil Terziev, Sofia mayor

Issue 206

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DimanaT — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:12:57 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Sat, 10/28/2023 - 16:12

We count the three parties – GERB, PP-DP and DPS – as one. We, GERB, do not participate in the coalition. What stops the DPS from not participating as well? This is why it is a non-coalition, isn't it?

Boyko Borisov, chairman of GERB

Our homegrown Bolsheviks wanted to organise an October Revolution.

Gen Atanas Atanasov, chairman of DSB, on the unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the government

We will have to grab the devil's tail to drag this country out of the swamp.

Finance Minister Asen Vasilev

Corruption is the gravest problem in Bulgaria's power engineering. And it is a fact because the greatest part of the industry is owned by the state.

Sasho Donchev, owner of Overgas

If we do not work for a month, a lot of Bulgarians will heave a breath of fresh air.

Toma Bikov, MP for GERB, explains why deputies need a vacation during the local elections' campaign

Issue 205

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DimanaT — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:14:50 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Tue, 08/29/2023 - 23:14

Laws must not be written like Facebook posts. In parliament, everything hasty turns out to be flawed.

Krum Zarkov, former justice minister

We have laws already. What are we ranting about? All tarts woke up 16 years later to remember they were raped. Like the case of that American film director whom they turned a monkey into.

Former chairman of the National Assembly Culture Committee Vezhdi Rashidov

Sofia must be hospitable to the people of Sofia rather than the Italians, Germans and Englishmen who come in weekends to have a beer along Vitosha Boulevard.

Vanya Grigorova, candidate for the Sofia mayoralty

If anyone thought they could win an election on the back of the police they are either unfamiliar with the election procedure or think they live in Latin America.

Former Interior Minister Emanuil Yordanov

Such show killings are unacceptable.

Kiril Petkov, former prime minister, on the assassination of Alexey "Tractor" Petrov, a former business associate of Boyko Borisov, who was murdered in a forest

Issue 203-204

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DimanaT — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:52:10 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Fri, 07/28/2023 - 12:52

You, as commander in chief, will understand me. If, God forbid, a tragedy happens and you were in my place, what would you do if people who share your values do not send you weapons? You would say: 'Putin, take these Bulgarian territories'?

Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev

I want to make it perfectly clear that Ukraine insists on continuing this war, and that the bill is being paid by the whole of Europe.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev during the inauguration of the Rozhen Flagpole

Radev swings between being a war hawk and a dove of peace.

Kornelia Ninova, Chairwoman of the BSP

In Bulgaria's right wing, there is a conflict between the families of the former State Security and the genuine rightwing people.

Boyko Borisov, Chairman of GERB

Bulgaria will improve if everyone talks only about the things in their field of competence.

Movie director Stefan Komandarev

Issue 202

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DimanaT — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:14:06 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Wed, 06/28/2023 - 22:14

We are an opposition that is a part of the government.

Rumen Hristov, SDS

We started a new political transition and we need wider support.

Hristo Ivanov, leader of Yes Bulgaria, on negotiations with DPS MP Delyan Peevski, sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act

Do you want to take DNA from all children in Sofia?

Boyko Borisov on his refusal of a paternity test over alleged offspring supposedly living in luxury in Barcelona

People overestimate us: we are neither that omnipotent, nor that evil.

GERB MP Toma Bikov

We, men, are very vulnerable creatures.

Yasen Todorov, deputy chairman of the National Investigative Service, during hearings on the emotional condition of Former Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev

Unless the GERB fulfil seven conditions, we will demand the resignation of the government.

Kiril Petkov, leader of Changes Continued, on the government set up by... Changes Continued

Issue 201 Boyko Borisov

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DimanaT — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:35:03 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:35

Did we get it right? The state is going to pay for the protection of a public prosecutor because he is in risk of being killed by another public prosecutor?

Yavor Bozhankov, MP for the CC-DB, on Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov requesting protection citing fears his boss, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, would have him murdered

Since yesterday afternoon a drone has been hovering around my terrace and has entered it.

Yasen Todorov, deputy director of the National Investigations Service

I was proposed (someone said, by Boyko Borisov) to become ambassador to Israel or Turkey. I did not take this seriously.

Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev

All the prosecutor general does is talk about me. He thinks I am afraid of him. I do not get scared easily.

Boyko Borisov, leader of GERB

We are in a situation when Khan Asparuh should return and reestablish the Bulgarian state.

Tomislav Donchev, deputy chairman of GERB

Issue 200 Boyko Borisov

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DimanaT — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:37:50 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Wed, 04/26/2023 - 23:37

We want to do in Bulgaria what Donald Trump did in the United States.

Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of the Vazrazhdane extremist party

GERB want a Latin American type of stability – a handful of people and companies getting all the money while the rest of the people are poor or emigrate to escape being poor.

Asen Vasilev, Changes Continued

One of the political players, CC-DB, were unable to win the election. The other political player, GERB, were unable to lose them.

Arman Babikyan, political commentator

A CC-DB politician said that he would rather have his arm whither than vote for GERB. A GERB politician said that he would rather cut his arm off rather than support Changes Continued. I cannot understand what this arm removal competition is about. And now, out of the blue, a gentlemen’s agreement. What is this? A coalition of one-armed gentlemen?

Kornelia Ninova, leader of the BSP, on GERB and CC-DB agreeing to have a rotating speaker of parliament

The president, then, should cut both his arms, because in 2020 he joined the anti-GERB protests and then he disowned the CC. Now, we are going to have a parliament with two speakers and a president without two arms. Do you really think that this is going to work?

Georgi Svilenski, BSP

Mrs Ninova said in the past that she would make a pact with the Devil to have 50 MPs. Now she talks about being moral. I am positive that she has 50 shades of being moral.

Yavor Bozhankov, CC-DB

Issue 199 Boyko Borisov

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DimanaT — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:27:17 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Sat, 03/25/2023 - 22:27

It is hard to believe that in the middle of a social crisis and a war the political parties are hiding behind the Red Army Monument.

President Rumen Radev on the debate about the demolition of MOCHA

Bulgarian women may have lower pensions, but they live longer.

Biser Petkov, former Public Welfare Minister, on the pay gap between men and women

It is not hypocritical that we receive money in euros and US dollars.

Kostadin Kostadinov, leader of the Vazrazhdane extreme nationalist party that is pushing for a referendum against adopting the euro as national currency

Our country is threatened with default.

Caretaker Finance Minister Rositsa Velkova on 15 March

Currently the country is stable, we cannot talk of an impending default.

Caretaker Finance Minister Rositsa Velkova on 16 March

The prosecution often releases some advance information, effectively torpedoing the investigation.

Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on claims by the General Prosecutor's Office about a conspiracy against Ivan Geshev

I am from Macedonia and I do not run. I fight.

General Prosecutor Ivan Geshev on the alleged plot

Issue 198

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DimanaT — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:03:43 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Fri, 02/24/2023 - 00:03

People who know absolutely nothing about warfare do everything possible to drag us into a process of escalation that is beyond our control. Let the 'parties of war' win the election, form a government and then send Bulgarian weapons to Ukraine.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev

He tells Ukraine it should fall on its knees and accept that it will no longer exist.

Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's stance that no weapons should be sent to Ukraine

In reality, Boyko Borisov continues to rule – the old management boards are still running all the key institutions.

Former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov

I am disappointed, because I like the American way of life.

Vladislav Goranov, former GERB finance minister, after he was sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act

I fully believe that Goranov is innocent, but we, GERB, dissociate from him.

Boyko Borisov, GERB

We are not going to destroy our energy sector in order to make a scratch on the Russian one.

Rosen Hristov, minister of power engineering, on suggestions Bulgaria should stop using Russian nuclear fuel

Issue 197 Boyko Borisov

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DimanaT — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:59:54 +0000

QUOTE-UNQUOTE DimanaT Thu, 12/29/2022 - 10:59

Three Bulgarian policemen died recently while protecting the EU's external border. Today, the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, insinuated that this border could be illegally crossed for 50 euros.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev

The people placed their bet on evil. Evil won, so did the people.

Nikolay Gabrovski, GERB's prime minister-designate, on his failure to win approval in parliament

Gabrovski had a mission from God.

Meglena Plugchieva, minister-designate from Gabrovski's failed cabinet

Power is temporary. The consequences of stupid government decisions are long-standing.

Caretaker Prime Minister Galab Donev

Lionel Messi is over 30, but when he joins the game, he scores the first goal. Bulgaria has its own Messi – me.

Boyko Borisov, leader of GERB, on why he sees himself as being best fit to run the country

Bulgaria swarms with semiliterate intellectuals.

Caretaker Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov

Issue 195-196

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