After 35 years of looting, predatory “managerial” privatization, and destruction of the nation’s capital, it is time for a new beginning in the management and stewardship of state property.
The plundering of public assets must come to an end. The assets belong to the people and must remain with the people.
All attempts to suggest that there is such a thing as “good” privatization — when it involves selling the offices of Rumen Radev’s caretaker governments or the office of Ivan Kostov, the father of the daylight robbery of state assets sold for pennies into the hands of oligarchs like Prokopiev — and “bad” privatization, meaning the kind in which Radev, Kostov, and their associates are not involved, are nothing but smoke and mirrors.
The New Beginning will put an end to the plunder, and from now on nothing will be sold off. That is why I propose the closure of the structures that have carried out privatization, as well as changes to the legal framework for the management and oversight of state and municipal properties and enterprises, in order to stop the sell-off of state assets.
Every ministry and every institution must manage its property in the interest of the people, while the state, as a good steward, must be fully engaged in this task.
State property must be used to fulfill commitments to the people — to build schools and kindergartens, housing for the military, police officers, firefighters and their families, hospitals and healthcare facilities, homes for the elderly and the sick. To provide housing for young doctors and teachers across the country, and to create conditions for regional development by attracting public–private partnerships involving municipalities and state structures. This is how the interests and rights of the people will be fully protected.
To make all this happen, state enterprises and properties must remain where they are. The first step towards achieving this is the closure of the Public Enterprises and Control Agency — the successor of the Privatization and Post-Privatization Control Agency — and the development of a property management strategy for every ministry, municipality, and state structure.