© Julia Lazarova
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The reader’s imagination often turns out to be poor in interpreting the messages of government, parties, state institutions, private associations or PR. Dnevnik’s “Overdose” column began six years ago with the collection of the absurdities of the messages during the 2014 election campaign, but Bulgarian politics continues to provide new stories.
Kostadin Kostadinov – leader of the nationalist Vazrazhdane party, for which more than 82,000 voters voted in the last election, called Bulgarians “biomass”. In his Facebook account, he points to “yes, Bulgaria voters, Solomon Passy, ministers who bought American planes, civil society organizations and leaders of political parties who faithfully served American ministers.”
Saying that “one day, God forbid” the Americans will be evacuated from Bulgaria, the Varna municipal councilor with pro-Russian sympathies continues that “Bulgaria will need a lot of labor for large infrastructure projects – the tunnel under Shipka, the tunnel under Petrohan, maybe opening of a closed uranium mine, etc. Not that the above are quality workers, they are good only in selling the national interest, but still this biomass must be somehow utilized and at least once in his life to do something useful for the country. . “
Kostadinov was also invited by leading TV stations, and on the national air of Nova TV on the morning of August 20 he was much more restrained about the danger of a migrant crisis. with statements such as “We must not rely on some of the European Brussels bureaucrats to solve our problems”.
In the April elections, the party received 2.45% of the vote, and on July 11, with reduced activity – 3.01%, which led analysts to assume that “Vazrazhdane” has any chance to get into parliament. Exceeding the threshold of 1% of valid votes, the party receives hundreds of thousands of levs in state subsidies.
His supporters, wearing T-shirts with the party’s name, were among those active in provoking clashes with police on the morning of September 2, 2020, at the opening of the National Assembly session at the former Party House in Sofia.
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