/ world right now information/ There are too many alternative folks in BSP, there are lobbies, folks with completely different opinions – this isn’t a minus. Uniting round one thing in widespread is the nice mastery of a frontrunner. The one factor that may unite us is sweet concepts and insurance policies. Thus far I do not see this dialog being important. Sadly, for now the dialog continues to be on the degree of non-public assaults, yellow manipulations, lies concerning the opponent, and this goals to denigrate him. This hurts the BSP.
These are the phrases of Cornelia Ninova in an interview with “Capital” days earlier than the forty ninth congress of the get together, which elected her as its chief. In the identical interview, she acknowledged that the socialists would rule with GERB provided that they gained the elections and the BSP is the primary political pressure. The 12 months is 2016.
In March 2017, the BSP didn’t win the parliamentary vote, and the chairwoman requested the Nationwide Council for a vote of confidence as a result of election loss – and acquired it with a full majority, and not using a single vote in opposition to or abstention. On the plenum, the socialists additionally mentioned the opportunity of a broad governing coalition with GERB, however categorically rejected it.
4 years later, the centenarian get together is once more combating, as known as by the “Internationale” – the world anthem of communists, socialists and anarchists.
However despite the fact that they appear tight, the crimson ranks are removed from pleasant.
Irrespective of how a lot they deny the strain between Ninova’s opponents, who’re the enemies with a celebration ticket, and the Praetorians of the chief, known as by Velislava Dureva “Cornelians of the final day”, it exists and can grow to be much more clear from the outcomes of the elections. As a result of along with her remaining actions, such because the excommunication of Georgi Gergov from the BSP, the chairwoman opened a entrance in her rear and turned her supporter from yesterday into an outspoken opponent. It isn’t in any respect excluded that the third-generation communist and first-generation oligarch will work actively within the election marketing campaign in opposition to Ninova.
It may possibly hardly be anticipated that in these elections she is going to actively work for Ninova and the mayor of Pernik, Stanislav Vladimirov, who known as her an “aggressive, alarmist and malicious girl”, illiberal of different folks’s opinions and criticism, in addition to different organizations within the nation, dissatisfied with the politics of the chairwoman.
With the change within the get together’s Constitution on the final congress, which restricted the opportunity of socialists being folks’s representatives for greater than 12 years (except the chairman),
even within the earlier parliamentary elections, important figures within the BSP had been eliminated.
This largely constructive pattern permits younger folks to enter the parliament, though in relative phrases they’re considerably lower than the individuals of the established order. Thus, Krum Zarkov, probably the most lively critics of the ruling get together, will lead the Ruse Socialists on this election marketing campaign as properly, and 27-year-old Petya Michalevska was chosen to go the Kardzhaliya record. The hereditary socialist (Dymcho Mihalevski’s daughter) believes that the youngest are obliged to lift their voices in order that the encapsulated get together management can hear them.
Nonetheless, youth in politics is neither a vice nor a vital benefit, even much less so when concepts and messages collide in a marketing campaign. For instance, Alexander Simov from the center era within the BSP and a second-term member of parliament at the same time as a younger socialist confirmed way more orthodox views than his outdated comrades within the get together.
However regardless of the partial rejuvenation of the crimson lists within the nation, they don’t present any aspiration of Ninova and the get together management in the direction of change.
however moderately… an imitation. In any other case, there wouldn’t be three staff of State Safety in them, no matter which companies they labored for, or individuals with pending prison proceedings and with a foul repute of their areas. Ninova boasts that these elected as leaders of lists are folks with experience in numerous fields, but when she has to pick ministers from them in a future cupboard dominated by the BSP, the chief will definitely have difficulties.
It is usually not clear how the chairperson would clarify to the rank-and-file socialists from Veliko Tarnovo why she most well-liked Yavor Bozhankov because the chief of the record over Vesela Lecheva, supported in a particular letter by mayors and chairmen of get together buildings from the area. Or why he didn’t adjust to the desire of the Gabrovo socialists, who voted for Kristina Sidorova, and put the automotive racer and champion of Bulgaria, Krum Donchev, because the chief of the lists. Most likely, the examples aren’t exhausted with the talked about two.
Cornelia Ninova confirmed that she lacks exactly “the nice mastery of the chief to unite”.
As a result of 4 years after turning into the top of the BSP, she has not but been capable of finding what would carry collectively the varied factions and pursuits within the centenary. And the massive dialog is once more not about concepts and insurance policies, however stays on the degree that didn’t fulfill the chairwoman earlier than she took the helm of the get together.
The concepts and insurance policies for change within the nation’s improvement had been laid down within the “Imaginative and prescient for Bulgaria”, which the BSP adopted at the start of 2019. Two years later, the socialists appeared with the identical program within the upcoming parliamentary elections. However throughout these two years, occasions occurred that modified the course of historical past not solely in a nationwide or narrowly regional side. So in the primary doc of the reds
lacks a “imaginative and prescient” of how, in the event that they win the election, they are going to handle the disaster brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
How will they handle the financial system, relying increasingly more on distant work and robots, which within the subsequent 20 years will exchange human labor in lots of fields. The latter, in response to analysts’ forecasts, will result in unemployment, social unrest, even revolutions.
Not solely does the BSP don’t know the way it will meet the challenges of the subsequent decade, which can see world modifications in politics, monetary and inventory markets, economics and ecology. In her program doc, which I doubt that even half of the get together members have learn, concerning the priorities within the “Power” sector – a structurally figuring out department of the financial system, the development of the Belene NPP with a minimal of 51% participation of the state, buyback from the ERA state on a market foundation, restoration of the fuel hall with Russia in accordance with European guidelines, and so on. And for the coal vegetation from the “Maritsa-East” complicated, which, in response to the EU’s Inexperienced Plan, are to be closed within the coming years, the socialists envisage assist with the intention of “maximally extending their lives, in addition to coal mining”.
Most certainly, Kornelia Ninova and her runners-up within the get together are relying on the wave of public dissatisfaction with the mafia-like administration of Borisov’s third cupboard to “pour water into their mill”. However deep down they do not consider it themselves. Not solely as a result of sociology doesn’t measure such a pattern in current surveys of public attitudes. And since the BSP is neither a left-wing nor a contemporary get together. As a result of she has not renounced her communist previous and has not condemned it. As a result of he didn’t acknowledge the disastrous position of the DS for the Bulgarian Transition, for the delivery of the mafia from among the many former secret companies, for the failed democracy and the blossoming authoritarianism.
These are the primary the reason why the Bulgarian voter doesn’t see the nuances within the photographs of Ninova and Borisov – the 2 sides of the identical coin.
As a result of Borisov is as right-wing as Ninova is left-wing. As a result of they each got here out of the identical matrix.
The chairman of the BSP topped the record in Plovdiv and is about to enter right into a titanic conflict with Boyko Borisov. In fact, if he accepts the gauntlet thrown right down to him and decides to lastly settle for a person’s struggle with the crimson chief, as she herself known as him a while in the past from the parliamentary rostrum. Nevertheless, regardless of how a lot they vowed, the 2 would struggle ultimately as a substitute of getting a “man’s struggle”.
* Venelina Popova
An extended-time journalist within the “Horizon” program of the BNR, a correspondent from Stara Zagora. Winner of the “Panitsa” award for civil valor. For her investigations, she went via two trials, each with acquittals for her. He believes within the energy of unbiased and sincere journalism
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