/ world today news/ Almost all Bulgarian prime ministers who did not manage to finish their mandates owe a lot to their advisers for their failure. They encapsulated them, cut them off from the real world so they could more easily manipulate them. It was obvious that Boyko Borisov did not listen to any advice during his second term. But he had informal advisers, they themselves boasted of their closeness to the all-powerful prime minister. But apparently they did not subject it to any criticism. On the contrary, they suggested to him how great he was, compared him to Tsar Simeon, to Stambolov. Until it is completely detached from the earth’s gravity.
Then it gets bad…
On the night of the first round of the presidential elections, I said in the television studio that it is better for Borissov to resign quickly than to agonize for a long time and lose any chance to return to politics. I say “in politics”, not in the post of prime minister.
A sociologist, who is not on your side with the truth, distorted my thesis and wrote in a newspaper that I predicted how he would return “on a white horse.” Interesting concept, to attribute a position to someone and then overthrow him!
Borisov did exactly that anyway, he resigned. Not because he listened to me, he just worked out the rest of his infamous intuition. So far so good. But he is again in the grip of illusions. His entire behavior is aimed at creating a catastrophic situation, after which he will reappear on a “white horse”.
Something like in 2013… But it’s not the same!
The effects of the “pancake flip” effect are now manifesting themselves in a familiar way. First of all, yesterday’s slanderers are now crushing the dictator. Oh, how brave they are today! Analysts still dependent on the regime are trying to make sense of the victory of Radev and the BSP.
However, it turns out that there are also decent people who are still possessed by the “Boyko Borisov magic” and now they convince us that the loss of the elections was a “cunning move by Boyko”, who had “calculated in advance” the loss of Tsetska Tsacheva. We shouldn’t interpret this turn of events solely as “stupidity, self-forgetfulness, and conceit, and leave the ex-firefighter’s foresight and acting talent out of the equation.” In a word, Boyko was “worthy of an Oscar for his acting”.
I want to object to these people I respect, who find it difficult to part with illusions.
Yes, Borisov is likely to return to the game. He might even win the election. This is by no means excluded, although the psychological situation after the heavy loss does not work in his favor. Voters felt their power. The reverse trend also works – were we not mistaken? But she is weaker. In any case, Borisov will not stay in politics for long. His image has lost its magic. People don’t believe him for a long time.
I was convinced of this more than a year ago, when in the National Theater the audience laughed mockingly at the image that reminded of him – vocally and in mentality. As he used to laugh at every hint about Todor Zhivkov. More than once in Bulgarian history, the verdict on the rulers was pronounced first in the theater. When people start laughing fearlessly at a ruler, he is doomed.
Audiences are still laughing at Boyko’s “Oscar-worthy” performances to prove what kind of man he is. But why didn’t he resign as the leader of GERB, as is proper and as other party leaders have done in the event of catastrophic election defeats? What does the prime ministership have to do with the presidential election? See the party-yes.
We observe how his closest associates – Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Tomislav Donchev, even Vladislav Goranov distance themselves from Borisov in their public appearances by taking more realistic and responsible positions. The battle for the succession in GERB started even before the elections. But Borisov doesn’t care about GERD if he is without it. For him, the party is only a tool for taking power. Or to return to it, in this particular case. So he takes a step back to take two steps forward. According to Lenin. One detail — Lenin’s subtitle is “The Crisis in Our Party.” But does Borisov care about that?
He never had an ideology. He chose the “right” simply because it was the safer path to power. He saw power as a means of personal expression. He lived like the Bulgarian Juan Peron. He only talked about management in the first person. Even about the distribution of state money, he said “I gave”. You just lost Evita…
I will allow myself one more piece of advice for Boyko Borisov. The best thing he can do for himself right now is to retire from active politics by retaining some honorary party position. Why not trust the more experienced? Before he experienced new defeats, before he drank to the bottom the cup of disappointment from the sudden disappearance of popular love. His withdrawal would give his party a chance to survive and would give more chances to the Bulgarian right. And of Bulgaria as a whole.
The bad thing is that autocratic rulers suffer from the same syndrome. They think they are indispensable. Power makes them dizzy and they lose their sense of reality. That is why they leave so painfully and humiliatingly. I have quite a few examples in my professional memories.
In 1975, in the Korydalos prison of Athens, the trial began against the leaders of the Greek junta, which had put Greece “in plaster” for seven years. I watched them closely—the horrors that had sent the tanks to crush the rioting students of the Polytechnic, that had exiled Melina Mercouri, had imprisoned Mikis Theodorakis, had trampled democracy in its cradle. Now they were some pitiful geeks.
I remember the leaders of the BKP in one of the trials that were conducted against them, was it for the aid, was it for the apartments? They, inaccessible to the Politburo, were now sweating, trembling, answering the judges in thin voices.
I remember Todor Zhivkov in prison – a frail old man, powerless, crushed. I regretted showing it on Panorama.
And that’s why, without making a direct analogy, I can’t forget Boyko Borisov’s face at the interview they gave together with Tsetska Tsacheva on television. Yes, he already sensed the loss, but there was no turning back. He looked doomed, desperate.
If a politician really understands his people, he should remove himself before he incurs their wrath. Because after laughter comes contempt, then punishment. And finally – anger.
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