Coalition leader – Georgi Purvanov (BSP)
Coalition partners - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP); Political Movement Social Democrats, leader Nikolai Kamov; United Labour Block, leader Krustio Petkov (CITUB leader); Bulgarian Agrarian Union “Alexander Stamboliiski” – 1899, leader Dragomir Shopov; Union for the Fatherland, leader Ginio Ganev; Alliance for Social-Liberal Progress, leader Vassil Velinov; Movement “Ahead, Bulgaria,” leader Belcho Ivanov; Communist Party of Bulgaria, leader Alexander Paunov; Political Club “Trakia,” leader Todor Boiadzhiev; Citizens Union “Roma,” leaders Pavel Kirovski, Yanko Kostov
Slogans:
Farewell to hate!
Time for change
For Bulgaria, for the people, for you!
Economic priorities:
• Priority sectors are IT, infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, food and light industry
• Keeping the currency board
• Creation of post-privatization control body
• Liberation of business from political and bureaucratic racketeering
• Removal of unnecessary licensing and permission regimes
• Encouraging export, stimulation of investments, especially state investments in infrastructure and hi-tech projects
• Easing credit access
• Activation of capital market
• Lightened access to financial-credit resources and total transparency at utilizing national and EU pre-accession funds
Agriculture:
• Guaranteeing minimal buying prices for basic agriculture products
• Support for the co-operative agriculture system; enlarging (okrupniavane) of land ownership
• Support for reconstruction, modernization, and enlargement of the irrigation systems
• Easier access to risk and guarantor funds for starting businesses
Tax policy:
• Tax credit for investors and job creators
• Introduction of family taxation
Employment:
• Decrease of unemployment by 30 per cent by 2005, through providing jobs within state and municipal programs at times of high unemployment, stimuli for investments and opening new jobs
• Controlled maximum duration of work day and work week
Social policy:
• Increase of: minimum salary in 2002 to 100 leva; average state salary in 2002 to 300 leva, in 2005 to 442 leva
• Average pension: 2001 – 123 leva, 2005 – minimum 40 per cent of the average salary; no limit for highest pension
• Introduction of minimum hourly wage
• Food, heat, and light for socially disadvantaged people
Individual safety and protection:
• Carrying out unified state policy for crime control and prevention
• Curbing mass crime and stabilizing public order
• Protection of national economy and citizens’ businesses from crime
• Final limitation of corruption and organized crime
Health and education:
• Increase of state expenditures for education; state-paid textbooks until eighth grade
• Free education in state universities
• Computer literacy for all students and preferential Internet access
• Reinstatement of Bulgarian health care’s public nature
• Perfection of health reform’s legislative and normative basis, to provide for equal and accessible health care; keeping a state hospital in regional centres and providing medical care in every village
• Reinstatement of school health care
• Special attention to risk groups and special care for children, invalids, pensioners, and socially disadvantaged
• Effective management of the health care finances; not allowing resources to be directed to bureaucracy
• Sustainable management of natural resources; improvement of the environment and work environment
• Preservation, development, and integration of Bulgarian science
• Keeping Bulgaria’s cultural identity, developing ethnic groups’ cultural traditions
• Support for reinstatement of the unity of the Bulgarian orthodox church
Foreign policy and national security:
• National, non-party foreign policy backed up by maximum public and political support; non-military means preferred for guaranteeing national security
• Continuation in international priorities and EU and NATO accession
• Activation of regional co-operation, relations with the U.S., Russia and CIS countries, reinstatement and development of relations with traditional partners from Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• Protection of the rights of Bulgarians abroad
• Army reform continuation; measures for protection of Army and Interior Ministry officers and for social adaptation of laid off officers
Coalition partners - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP); Political Movement Social Democrats, leader Nikolai Kamov; United Labour Block, leader Krustio Petkov (CITUB leader); Bulgarian Agrarian Union “Alexander Stamboliiski” – 1899, leader Dragomir Shopov; Union for the Fatherland, leader Ginio Ganev; Alliance for Social-Liberal Progress, leader Vassil Velinov; Movement “Ahead, Bulgaria,” leader Belcho Ivanov; Communist Party of Bulgaria, leader Alexander Paunov; Political Club “Trakia,” leader Todor Boiadzhiev; Citizens Union “Roma,” leaders Pavel Kirovski, Yanko Kostov
Slogans:
Farewell to hate!
Time for change
For Bulgaria, for the people, for you!
Economic priorities:
• Priority sectors are IT, infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, food and light industry
• Keeping the currency board
• Creation of post-privatization control body
• Liberation of business from political and bureaucratic racketeering
• Removal of unnecessary licensing and permission regimes
• Encouraging export, stimulation of investments, especially state investments in infrastructure and hi-tech projects
• Easing credit access
• Activation of capital market
• Lightened access to financial-credit resources and total transparency at utilizing national and EU pre-accession funds
Agriculture:
• Guaranteeing minimal buying prices for basic agriculture products
• Support for the co-operative agriculture system; enlarging (okrupniavane) of land ownership
• Support for reconstruction, modernization, and enlargement of the irrigation systems
• Easier access to risk and guarantor funds for starting businesses
Tax policy:
• Tax credit for investors and job creators
• Introduction of family taxation
Employment:
• Decrease of unemployment by 30 per cent by 2005, through providing jobs within state and municipal programs at times of high unemployment, stimuli for investments and opening new jobs
• Controlled maximum duration of work day and work week
Social policy:
• Increase of: minimum salary in 2002 to 100 leva; average state salary in 2002 to 300 leva, in 2005 to 442 leva
• Average pension: 2001 – 123 leva, 2005 – minimum 40 per cent of the average salary; no limit for highest pension
• Introduction of minimum hourly wage
• Food, heat, and light for socially disadvantaged people
Individual safety and protection:
• Carrying out unified state policy for crime control and prevention
• Curbing mass crime and stabilizing public order
• Protection of national economy and citizens’ businesses from crime
• Final limitation of corruption and organized crime
Health and education:
• Increase of state expenditures for education; state-paid textbooks until eighth grade
• Free education in state universities
• Computer literacy for all students and preferential Internet access
• Reinstatement of Bulgarian health care’s public nature
• Perfection of health reform’s legislative and normative basis, to provide for equal and accessible health care; keeping a state hospital in regional centres and providing medical care in every village
• Reinstatement of school health care
• Special attention to risk groups and special care for children, invalids, pensioners, and socially disadvantaged
• Effective management of the health care finances; not allowing resources to be directed to bureaucracy
• Sustainable management of natural resources; improvement of the environment and work environment
• Preservation, development, and integration of Bulgarian science
• Keeping Bulgaria’s cultural identity, developing ethnic groups’ cultural traditions
• Support for reinstatement of the unity of the Bulgarian orthodox church
Foreign policy and national security:
• National, non-party foreign policy backed up by maximum public and political support; non-military means preferred for guaranteeing national security
• Continuation in international priorities and EU and NATO accession
• Activation of regional co-operation, relations with the U.S., Russia and CIS countries, reinstatement and development of relations with traditional partners from Near East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• Protection of the rights of Bulgarians abroad
• Army reform continuation; measures for protection of Army and Interior Ministry officers and for social adaptation of laid off officers
