/ world today news/ The forced candidacy of the former head of military aviation, Gen. Rumen Radev can lead to deep internal conflicts in the BSP, and his candidacy itself must first be imposed among the left electorate and only then seek peripheral votes. This became clear from the analyzes of sociologist Yury Aslanov and political scientist Ivo Indjov, who are close to the socialists.
The BSP leadership will have to contend during the campaign with rumors about whose candidacy Gen. Rumen Radev. And this opens a second front – “internal, which is unpleasant for any campaign”, sociologist and member of the leadership of the Socialists Yury Aslanov, who resigned from the Executive Bureau, predicted to BNR on Friday.
“What is happening is an echo of the recently concluded congress where the change of leadership took place, and this echo has left the party divided and will probably continue until the election. It will die down if the candidate of the left wins, or it will transform into more tension after the election in the event of a loss. This may also lead to a change of management,” Aslanov also predicted.
He wanted to leave the leadership of the BSP after a series of intra-party obstacles regarding the formation’s nomination for the presidential vote. According to unofficial information, Aslanov and the other who resigned – Kostadin Paskalev, insisted that the candidate for president of the BSP was not Rumen Radev, imposed by the ABV, but the ombudsman Maya Manolova.
His fellow political scientist Ivo Injov from the Institute for Modern Politics, whose head also promoted Manolova to the presidency, announced that he was not optimistic about the candidacy of Gen. Rumen Radev, because his name had to be popularized first of all in the circle of left-wing and centrist-minded voters. In front of the BNR, he added that due to the manner in which his candidacy was presented, Radev will have to convince that this is not the result of some scenario.
“Only GERB can afford the luxury of bringing out a very famous person at the last moment and holding elections without having to promote the candidacy. The questions surrounding Gen. Radev do not come from his personality,” added Injov in his analysis:
According to his words, the bitter aftertaste remains that this candidacy was pre-agreed on, that it was imposed by the leaders of the two formations. “Bitter aftertaste not so much for behind the scenes, but for a purposeful line of the leadership, especially the BSP, to impose this candidacy.
While in ABV Radev’s candidacy was almost single-handedly approved, in BSP things are more dramatic, because a candidate with relatively few nominations turns out to be a favorite of the leadership,” the political scientist pointed out:
According to him, the question arises as to why this façade of intra-party democracy was played out, since both candidates with 174 nominations and candidates with 19 nominations had equal weight in the selection process?
“It is too early to answer whether Rumen Radev’s candidacy is winning, but the advantage at this stage is undoubtedly on the side of GERB, and Gen. Radev is counted on to attract people from the broad left periphery and centrists, as well as moderate thinkers patriots and right-wing voters,” he believes.
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