/ world today news/ “The changes in the Constitution curtail the presidential powers, politicize the prosecutor’s office and assert the power of the political class, which is at odds with society. They don’t solve the problems, they deepen them.”
That’s what he said Ivo Hristov, member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EP (S&D), V the transmission „Politically INCORRECT“ by “Horizon” program of the BNR, 27.01.2024 Mr.
“It is obvious that the appointments to the Constitutional Court do not meet the requirements for qualification and objectivity. They are part of the process of conquering all Bulgarian institutions. Even the most conservative of them, the Constitutional Court, which should be a symbol of objectivity and competence, of legal superiority and principle, now looks more and more like a politicized body,” said the MEP.
When asked whether the changes implemented by the current administration are not in the name of protecting Euro-Atlantic values, Ivo Hristov answered that “Euro-Atlanticism is used as a universal justification for everything“.
“The most important thing is to understand that the sham that the Bulgarian grant media instilled in the last 30 years and especially in the last 15 is over. First it was the song about the good right against the bad left in the years of swirling anti-communism, and in the last fifteen years, with the appearance of Boyko Borisov, the media suggested that there is a bad, corrupt and inauthentic right wing around Borisov and the DPS. But there is also a good, perfumed, perfect, idealistic, principled right around PPDB and their various predecessors in the blue sector in the past. Now the whole right is united around the tablesat down, feasting in front of the eyes of the entire Bulgarian citizenry, and it is already clear what he represents.”
The MEP analyzes the risks of the current parliamentary majority demanding the impeachment of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev. “They have the necessary majorities in the various institutions that are involved in the impeachment process. Whether they will do it is difficult for me to judge, because it means that they will follow Geshev’s scenario from four years ago, i.e. to confront the whole society.
They currently live in an illusion of omnipotence and impunity, but that’s what the dead summer of 2020 looked like, and you know what the consequences were. They underestimate the gunpowder potential of the Bulgarian society, which is extremely oppressed and dissatisfied with both the prices and the roadlessness. The fact that the protest is deaf, in the form of abstaining from voting, does not at all mean that society would accept drastic measures”.
Ivo Hristov emphasized that “sooner or later, historical sins are paid for, political ones too”, but this will be bad for Bulgarian society.
„In the most turbulent times possible for Europe and the world, Bulgaria has no strategy of its own, no leadership and direction of its own. We are a drifting ship that can be tossed in different directions at the whim of the excitement. I would say that in a future global negotiation, Bulgaria is the easiest bargaining chip, as it itself does not know what it is fighting for. And the war is growing in many regions, and sooner or later, if we avoid the apocalypse, some kind of agreement will be reached.
Former consensuses are crumbling. The European consensus, on which the Bulgarian development rested in the last thirty years, has been greatly eroded. And not because of populist attacks, not because of some raging Europhobia, but precisely because the parties that claim to be pro-European have disgusted everyone. They push their servility for Euro-Atlanticism. On the other hand, all international decision-making centers are happy to have such uncomplaining subcontractors in Bulgaria, with whom they do not even have to negotiate. The Bulgarian political elite and the global centers”.
Ivo Hristov outlined the trends in the upcoming EP elections, saying that “Europe is turning to the right, which is moving away from the ideas with which it was created – to guarantee the peace and prosperity of the continent. And in recent years, it has been engaged in general supplies of ammunition to Ukraine and concluded free trade agreements with distant partners on the backs of its own manufacturers.”
He specified that accusations that BSP MPs in the European Parliament supported the supply of weapons to Ukraine are disgusting cynicism, “because we are among the few in the European Parliament who have methodically and consistently voted against arms supplies, always and consistently.”
When asked whether President Rumen Radev should create a party and whether he should personally lead it, Ivo Hristov stated:My opinion is that a presidential party should have been created a long time ago. Why should one wait for some vague future moment, and what exactly should one wait for? Bulgarians need an alternative. When 70% of citizens do not vote, there is clearly a hunger for something new. It’s not just about the presidential party. It’s about new ideas, mostly on the left, it’s about new representation and new ideas even on the right. Because right-wing voters were the first to be deceived in the last election. Including recently, with the appointments in the Central Committee, including the “assembly”. They suffered the insult of going round the squares, and in the end they were disgracefully lied to.’
Ivo Hristov explained that the leading dilemma is not whether Radev will personally lead a possible new party, but for the Bulgarians to realize that without voting and without protests, without a position, no change is possible. All these charlatan raids in the Bulgarian political landscape in the last 30 years are the result of apathy. From not being sanctioned, from cheap bluffs being sold as high hopes. It takes a daily commitment. Just as a person takes care of his livelihood and his family, so he should also take care of community affairs, have an eye on them. At least to vote, to protest when he disagrees. That is the main thing, not the change of personalities.’
The MEP emphasized in conclusion that “the horizon to which Bulgaria should strive is a presidential republic. A way out of the current crisis, within the framework of the current Constitution, is not possible. After all, the changes in the Constitution aimed at just that – to close this emergency exit from the crisis by saying “here, you wanted constitutional changes – we made them”. This has already happened. And they have nothing to do with the needs of Bulgaria as a country and with restoring the legitimacy of political power. One of the main goals of the reform was to curtail presidential powers, and the other was the politicization of certain bodies and their conquest.”
Ivo Hristov stated that there should be early parliamentary elections, given the sociological sentiments, but he does not expect this to happen. “If there are no early parliamentary elections together with the European ones, they can turn out to be a disaster for Bulgaria, because a critically small number of Bulgarians will vote in them. This will give arguments both to the Europhobes in Bulgaria and to all the nationalist parties in Europe, who will be able to refer to this lack of interest in Europe in Bulgaria in order to throw Bulgaria into the periphery of the union. It is certainly more in his outer orbit – not only geographically, but also politically. We saw it in the case of Schengen. In the long term, if the Union is reformatted, which is possible, since we are in a period of transformation, then Bulgaria, with this demonstrated lack of interest in Europe, will have a hard time fighting for its place in it.”
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