/ world today news/ “I don’t see a strong start in the first 100 days of the government. It is clear that with such a complex configuration of different political entities, compromises made by each participant – some of them not very easy, it would be surprising if everything goes sharply, well and in a clear direction”. Sociologist Zivko Georgiev commented to BGNES.
What is evident about the first 100 days is that this government will in all likelihood not be remembered for any radical reforms, although they were stated as an intention. They are unlikely to happen in the first year. The reason is that there is no clear general vision of the government about what should happen. There are also unfavorable circumstances in many sectors of society where firefighting efforts are devoted to putting out fires that break out here or there. This almost always distracts attention, dissipates personalities, dissipates human energy, and more precisely intellectual, and progressive development can hardly be expected.
In addition, local elections are coming up. What worries the ruling party most at the moment, regardless of which group, is the upcoming local elections. They are important to each of them. The outcome of the local elections will largely depend on whether there will be success in their development as parties, whether they will build and strengthen their identity /especially the younger formations/, and whether they will retain the positions they achieved in the parliamentary elections.
It can be seen that sudden movements are unlikely. And serious reform is always a sudden movement. In general, there is no clear vision of what we are fighting for on a national scale.
In the management program, which is conducted “for stable development”, there is concreteness, but it is not visible in the strategic areas where reform must undoubtedly be done. There is no concreteness in stated ideas and intentions. There is no political and administrative capacity to make things happen. There is real concreteness where, in addition to declared intentions, there is also proven capacity. And so far we haven’t seen one.
No new coalition culture is shown. Governance is a complex and problematic coalition. We have already had coalitions and they were also not very easy for the so-called coalition culture. So there is nothing radically new. What we’re seeing fits into this level of political culture and political interest that we’ve seen in the last decade. If there is something new, for now and with great conditionality, it is a new style of behavior, including a coalition one, on the part of GERB. GERD was not known for such qualities.
If we leave aside the verbal rifts, it is more important that serious blunders with a foreign policy dimension were made. This was yet another manifestation of the Bulgarian government’s contradictory, condescending and docile foreign policy orientation. This is not typical of this government alone, in recent years others have also come forward in this field. There were also a number of thought-out ideas and, in any case, poorly defended public ideas – for example, about railway transport, the decision about private pension funds…
They were unconvincing, and these ideas had to be well explained in public to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts and resistance. But this was not done. In 100 days there are other blunders and blunders and inadequate decisions. There are probably more important ones, but unfortunately we will find out about them later. I am not sure that all the mid- and long-term decisions of this government are clear enough. We have the feeling that commitments are being made, lines of behavior are being chosen that are not public enough. And since we don’t know them, they may be thoughtless, or they may be downright criminal.
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