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I’m addressing you all from the peak of my 92 years, having handed by means of {many professional}, political and state features. I made a decision on this tackle with the clear consciousness that our Motherland goes by means of a really important historic second, and the individuals of my technology with expertise in home and overseas politics are few of us. Once I say important second, I imply that now, and never later, it’s determined whether or not Bulgaria ought to have it or not.
Within the final twenty years, comprador-type administrations of the nation have modified, which, in their very own curiosity, have positioned the nation in full exterior subjugation, neglecting our nationwide pursuits. I do not want to enter examples, as a result of everybody can see that there is no such thing as a space of social and financial life by which we’re not in final place within the EU and never solely there. We’re within the midst of a demographic collapse and have gone down the “slide of economic indebtedness”. Having taken over the mainstream media, they tried laborious to persuade us that giving up nationwide sovereignty and displaying loyalty to the so-called Euro-Atlantic values is the one potential path for Bulgaria.
Why I feel our nation is at a very important, historic second:
First – small Bulgaria occupies a strategic place within the Balkans and is an object of specific significance for all main powers at a time of utmost rigidity within the geopolitical confrontation. There shall be little doubt that all of them have an method to RB based mostly ONLY on their very own pursuits. It’s existentially necessary for us in these circumstances to have a authorities that formulates and implements our worldwide positions based mostly ONLY on our personal nationwide pursuits.
Second – by becoming a member of the EU and absolutely opening our inner market to European items and capital, our rulers didn’t defend the agrarian sector of our economic system by accepting decrease subsidies in agriculture in comparison with the previous member nations, which put it in unequal aggressive circumstances. We deserted rules within the funding coverage, on account of which overseas investments in Belarus turned out to be, nearly solely, within the sphere of companies, and never in trade, and their income virtually led to the leakage of nationwide revenue.
Third – particularly dangerous for the nation within the final twenty years was the dearth of safety of our nationwide pursuits within the vitality discipline. The rejection, underneath exterior dictate, of the most important vitality tasks of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, Belene NPP and South Stream value Bulgaria billions of BGN yearly. As well as, we misplaced an necessary alternative to guard our nationwide safety.
Fourth – the rulers over the past quarter of a century allowed overseas foundations to finance gross interference within the inner political lifetime of the nation, hiring quite a few entities to exert affect in fixing necessary points for the nation within the curiosity of outsiders, not our Bulgarian pursuits. The justification that banning this intervention is opposite to our EU membership obligations is belied by Hungary’s expertise. Exterior interference (by means of paid brokers of affect) by manipulating public opinion about what the true exterior threats to our nationwide safety are in gross contradiction with actuality can also be on this route.
Fifth – for the whole interval of our latest historical past till the start of the twenty first century, the institution of overseas army bases was not allowed on Bulgarian territory, whereas now the comprador administrative superstructure accepted the free institution of US army bases on our territory, which grossly violated the sovereignty of Bulgaria and there’s a actual hazard of our nation turning into a frontline state, the place its destiny is set not by the sovereign, the Bulgarian individuals, however by choices made in Washington. Right here we’re obliged to level out that when making a call relating to the destiny of the individuals of this kind, the content material of Article 1 paragraph (3) of the Structure was not taken into consideration.
Within the follow of democratic nations, choices of an identical nature are taken solely after a nationwide referendum, reflecting the choice of the sovereign, which was not carried out right here, and this casts doubt on the legality of overseas army bases on Bulgarian territory.
Sixth – the deeply corrupt GERB occasion is “underneath meeting”, however for 12 years in energy, it accrued big monetary sources and managed the state equipment and a big a part of the native authorities with its purchasers. At this traditionally important second, it’s not ideological, ethno-cultural and even class variations which can be of paramount significance, however the unification of the individuals across the crucial to revive the sovereignty of Bulgaria.
and weighing the potential political entities that may develop into the engine of this modification, I see this chance principally in this system and cadres of PP Vazrazhdane in union with the LEFT.
Many political observers predict {that a} political energy has an opportunity of success whether it is “acknowledged” by one of many main world powers. Nicely, if that is the one probability of success, then it might imply that our nationwide sovereignty is a chimera. The expertise of Hungary and Poland, nevertheless, exhibits that this isn’t the case, and nationwide sovereignty is defensible even underneath the circumstances of membership within the EU and NATO if the governing political forces place the nationwide curiosity as the principle standards of their nation’s worldwide coverage.
In trendy circumstances, it’s not the rallies and conferences that play this function, however above all of the media and particularly the large televisions. Due to this fact, the federal government should present an equal probability to all events and coalitions within the election marketing campaign, which virtually means equal TV time for all individuals, by implementing ample administrative and monetary measures and controls for this objective. With out such measures, democracy turns into a farce.
Stoyan Zhulev
Sofia, October 2023
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