GERB deputy leader Daniel Mitov said on BNT's "Panorama" that the ruling parties' budget has no clear economic policy and no plan for growth, and that debt is rising.

Mitov, a former interior and foreign minister, believes GERB drew up much better budgets. A budget should show the risks and opportunities facing the state and where to invest to get growth, he said.

Mitov described the draft budget as one "of contemplation, of watching". He said the government watched events, entered them in a table and filled in the spending.

"This is a budget of progressive debt and, somehow, progressive impoverishment. Let's not say impoverishment, I will call it indebtedness," he said. Debt is growing, interest will pile up and the money will go only on paying it off instead of on kindergartens, hospitals, health care and education, Mitov warned.

On the crash, he began by offering condolences to the families of the dead. He then accused the ruling parties of shifting the blame onto earlier cabinets, and said GERB insists on political responsibility and resignations.

Mitov said he signed last year the order for Interior Ministry signs meant for the start of the Trakia motorway. The signs were delivered but never installed, and he has information that they are sitting in warehouses at "Zaharna Fabrika". The ruling parties must explain why they were not put up for months, he said.

Mitov also disputed the government's claim that there was no link between the Road Infrastructure Agency (API) and the Interior Ministry. He said the two bodies had a link and ways to coordinate. A spokesman for the API crisis centre confirmed the connection between them 20 days before the crash, he said.

"Everything that was said then, at the time of the crash, was misleading the public at the very least, not to say a lie," Mitov said. GERB had not planned to make statements on the day of the tragedy, he said, but comments from the prime minister, the interior minister and other government officials provoked it. They went to the scene and looked for blame in the past, he said.

Responsibility can be investigated, Mitov added, but administrative and political responsibility are different things and can be pursued quickly.