Bulgaria’s Political Default: The Lack of Real Power and Promises Unfulfilled

“How abstract it sounds – the new power came. Did power come? I think that Bulgaria is in the so-called political default, which means that the creditors, the voters, at least in democracy, the assignors of the public order to the political class, remained outside it “For the first time, we had an election in which, perhaps, with the exception of one single party, none of the voters got what they were promised,” said writer Dimitar Nedkov in the “Bulgaria ON AIR” studio.

“This time, during the election campaigns, it struck me how everyone was talking about what they would not do under any circumstances, that was the form of a promise of this thing. Only DPS was saying what it wanted to do and frankly said to itself that this time the power without them it can,” emphasized Nedkov and added that in Bulgaria and in politics, it’s like in life – “either you are someone, or you belong to someone”.

“During the entire Bulgarian transition, we have only two political figures who are somebody. These are Ahmed Dogan and Ivan Kostov, these are two professional, self-made Bulgarian politicians who are somebody,” said the writer.

According to him, Bulgaria currently has a “formal government.” “Regardless of the agreements they have, we have an absolutely formal prime minister who, apart from representing himself, will not decide anything else, the power is entirely in the hands of two persons from “The Change”. These are the real prime minister and decision-maker Asen Vassilev and everything goes through the coordination of Lena Borislavova”, says Nedkov.

According to him, there are important decisions to be made, which could be disastrous for the country.

Regarding President Rumen Radev, Dimitar Nedkov stated that “he is the first commander-in-chief president to whom a minister of war was appointed, not a minister of defense. For a long time we have been asking why it is called the Ministry of Defense. At the moment, everyone is at war with everyone. The president he can only be angry with himself, because only three years ago, he announced at the forum for the triumvirate that the main goal of the Baltic states is to achieve synergy with the strategic interests of the U.S. If we remember, then the “Change” project was presented . Who introduced them to the president? It was, perhaps, the embassy,” he said.