/ world at present information/ This 12 months we’re about to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Structure of Bulgaria on July 12, 1991. This founding act supplied a historic likelihood for Bulgarian society to place an finish to many years of fratricidal opposition and division. Didn’t occur. The prospect was additionally wasted as a result of refusal of the SDF to offer nationwide consent, in addition to on account of the truth that the BSP didn’t stand as much as the top for the precise observance of the Structure. Prior to now 30 years, we’ve got skilled all of the failures and disappointments of this lack of ability of society to beat hatred and the pursuit of revenge within the title of settlement and solidarity.
Now the query is, have we wised up as a society and can 2021 be the 12 months of a second likelihood to interrupt with the opposition? Over the previous thirty years, we’ve got fallen right into a vicious circle of seven-year cycles of recurring crises: in 1990/91, in 1996/97 and in 2012/13. Will this 12 months be the start of a brand new seven-year interval that may finish in one other deep disaster? Or quite the opposite – will or not it’s the 12 months of a profitable second likelihood to construct a working state with a cohesive society?
Such a hope borders on absurdity. How can we hope for settlement and empathy in a 12 months of parliamentary and presidential elections with sharp clashes? However it’s exactly now that the events and coalitions should suggest platforms which can be subordinate to a standard framework – the Structure! Not as an try to “reboot” the established order, however as a foundation for a contest of constructive options.
The protest that broke out in 2020 was a manifestation of the painful realization that “it might’t be like this anymore”! The protest demanded “Resignation /resignations/” and “New Structure”! Prime Minister Borissov made an try to make the protest pointless, and for this goal on August 13 of this 12 months addressed “to all Bulgarian residents”. In it he “communicated his choices”/?!/, specifically: „…not solely to restart our democracy, however to take action in a regime of most political illustration.” For this goal, to elect a brand new Grand Meeting, which can undertake a brand new structure, with which the variety of folks’s representatives to lower from 240 by 120, a in The Nice Nationwide Meeting – from 400 to 280which is a direct negation of “most political illustration”.
Because it turned out, this stillborn try at such a “democracy reboot” led the protesters to instantly drop the demand for a brand new structure. The enterprise itself subsequently suffered an entire catastrophe in Parliament and in society.
The duty earlier than the BSP at present is to take up the trigger for a second likelihood for a brand new social contract to implement the undertaking for a democratic, authorized and social state laid down within the Structure. For this goal, the celebration should meet three necessities.
First – to current an election platform, which, along with rejecting the “GERB mannequin”, proposes probably the most pressing measures to remodel the Nationwide Meeting from a rubber stamp for lobbyist laws right into a guarantor of the essential constitutional rights of residents. As well as, the platform also needs to include the mandatory options for the true neutralization of the “parallel state”.
Second – to suggest socialists or sympathizers as candidates for folks’s representatives with their very own authority in society and within the nation’s governance, who will dedicate themselves to the wrestle for the implementation and growth of the Structure.
Third – BSP ought to stand out as a bearer of a qualitatively completely different growth of Bulgaria and of every of its residents in comparison with life at present. The fiftieth Congress of the BSP selected a brand new program dialogue on the subject of “twenty first century socialism”. Such a dialogue is required at present, not someday sooner or later, as a technique of clarifying the picture of the BSP as a contemporary socialist celebration.
On this regard, the journal “New Time” just lately proposed for dialogue 10 key questions, which boil all the way down to the next:
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is the Marxist worldview nonetheless legitimate at present;
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what are the brand new realities of the trendy world;
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what capitalism is at present;
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what are the present understandings of what socialism is;
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what’s the socio-economic life like in our nation at present;
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what “reboot” is possible and vital;
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what’s democratic socialism;
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what’s the position of the “exterior issue”;
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what’s the 130-year path of Bulgarian socialism;
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what are the probabilities for vast left visitors at present?
On April 3, 1990, the celebration adopted its new title Bulgarian Socialist Occasion as an expression of its transformation into a celebration of democratic socialism. A day later, on April 4, the primary problem of the newspaper “Duma” was revealed. After two months, in June, the BSP received the elections for the seventh Supreme Supreme Court docket and a 12 months later secured the adoption of the nation’s democratic Structure.
Right now, time dictates that the BSP be capable of show itself as soon as once more as a profitable service of the socialist concept within the new realities of the twenty first century; as a celebration succesful not solely of getting extra votes within the upcoming elections, but additionally of offering a brand new perspective for Bulgaria!
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