/ world today news/ Plamen Oresharski ran for president and further complicated the intrigue surrounding the presidential elections. Behind his candidacy looms the silhouette of Delyan Peevski, who allegedly began to withdraw from his activities in Bulgaria.
The formal sign of Peevski’s presence is the candidacy for vice president of Danail Papazov, who was extremely close to the DPS MP when he was a minister in Oresharski’s government. The informal one is Plamen Oresharski himself, who in the last months of his administration completely switched to the DPS camp and completely emancipated himself from Sergey Stanishev and the BSP.
In practice, Oresharski became the prime minister of Ahmed Dogan, who through Peevski had already made a deal with Boyko Borisov. The robbery of KTB is one of the results of this deal, the second term of Borisov – as well. The nomination of the former prime minister is a sign that DPS has already made its choice in favor of GERB. Oresharski’s candidacy works for Boyko Borisov in several directions:
– It will bring additional confusion to the left electorate, which is already attacked by Ivaylo Kalfin and Tatiana Doncheva. The goal is to disperse the left vote as much as possible to weaken the strong candidacy of Gen. Rumen Radev.
– It will cause some excitement among the reformers, “Protest Network” and “Dnevnik” forum around the memory of the protests in the summer of 2013, which means mobilization of the right-wing vote, which in the second round will go to GERB.
– It will give an occasion to resurrect the rhetoric against “communists, red trash and bloodthirsty Oresharski”, which will be entirely directed against the BSP and will facilitate attacks against Rumen Radev, who is otherwise difficult for political attacks. Although at the end of his term, Plamen Oresharski became completely a DPS man and broke with Stanishev, the negatives remained for the left, and the positives from the otherwise good management of his cabinet were drowned in protest hysteria and media propaganda.
– It will mislead voters who are against GERB and would vote in protest. Oresharsky speaks persuasively, with arguments and without unnecessary emotions. His campaign will certainly be directed against the management of GERB, which will steal votes against them, but they will go to the channel, from which the result of the main opponent of the rulers in the person of gen. Rumen Radev.
– It will give Boyko Borisov the opportunity once again to justify all the weaknesses and mistakes of his own administration with the “bad legacy of Oresharski” and will dilute the focus of the election campaign by shifting it as far as possible from GERB.
It seems that the candidacy of Plamen Oresharski is intended as a support for Borisov and follows the model that was already played by Georgi Parvanov and Ivaylo Kalfin – squandering the left and protest vote. It is likely that the screenwriters want the BSP and Rumen Radev not to reach a runoff, or if they do succeed – that the difference between them and the GERB candidate be impressive and difficult to overcome in the second round. After all, GERB will then receive the support of the nationalists and Karakachanov, the Reform Bloc and – apparently – the decisive votes of the DPS. Whether this hypothesis will turn out to be true, we will find out very soon. In any case, this election is much more interesting and full of hidden surprises than many years ago.
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