19 Jan Tihomir Kamenov from Davos: Democratic values must be upheld

For yet another year, Tihomir Kamenov, Chairman of the Commercial League Group, is the only Bulgarian and a long-standing member of the World Economic Forum in Davos. He has also been invited to the special dinner hosted by President Trump on the opening day. A defining feature among both the topics discussed and the attendees is division and confrontation—the polarization of nearly all democratic societies.

As Vice-Chair of the Forum’s Anti-Corruption Commission, Kamenov emphasized:
“Democratic values must be upheld regardless of all coercive and non-coercive factors. Corruption has never left Bulgaria; no one has been removed from the Magnitsky list. Rather, I am not sure the list will not be expanded instead of shortened,” Kamenov predicted, adding that Vladislav Goranov continues to run rampant and to exercise administrative repression against a number of businesses in Bulgaria through his proxies.

“The entire state cannot be parceled out – this is a captured state, this is the deep state. We give a ministry to one party and it rules arbitrarily; we give a regulator to another – yet is the law being observed? Justice is slow, and administrative repression is in charge. What investments, what growth are we expecting?”, Kamenov concluded.