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Delyan Dobrev from GERB: The budget deficit is 9%

Delyan Dobrev
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The Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee in the National Assembly and GERB MP Delyan Dobrev has told bTV that the budget deficit is 9%. "9 billion euros is not 3%, but 9%," the MP and former Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism in the first government of Boyko Borissov said. According to Dobrev, 9% of GDP means that the state has huge problems with public finances and gave Greece as an example, which went bankrupt with 9% budget deficit.

Dobrev pointed out that in most of the years of GERB's rule, inflation was lower than the criterion for entering the eurozone, but the country was not ready because of other reasons.



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