/ world today news/ The feeling of chaos and uncertainty in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is so strong that the whistling and shouts of “Mafia” that Minister Rumiana Bachvarova received as an assessment in Garmen may soon seem like gentle adjectives.
The power department, to which the structures of our own security are subject, is possessed by populism, against which sugar-coating the death of the mayor of Novozagorsk seems to us almost like a real solution. But it does not matter who sprinkles the sweet dust.
How did it get here? In order to evaluate the first 6 months of the mandate of Borisov’s government in the Ministry of Energy – a little chronology. Veselin Vuchkov was appointed to replace the acting minister of the Ministry of the Interior, Yordan Bakalov, recently director of the “Military Information” service. He was claimed to be a professional who would succeed in reforming the department. For his short stay in office, almost 4 months, and his scandalous dismissal by Prime Minister Borisov, due to expressing his own professional position, Vuchkov, however, left some mark. It may not be the best, but it is still there – with changes in the law on the Ministry of the Interior, he returned the GDBOP to the Ministry of the Interior, merged the Criminal and Security Police into a common structure – the General Directorate of the National Police. The changes in the law restored the right of the president to appoints the chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the chairman of the National Security Agency for the first time – a step before he tried to get rid of the then chief secretary Svetlozar Lazarov, which severely hampered his career mobile cameras on the road and in patrol cars.
Vuchkov’s stay in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also be remembered for the crash of a truck with border policemen guarding our southern furrow from illegal immigrants. Then one of the policemen died, and the union of the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanded the resignation of the minister. However, instead of him, the director of the Border Police, Zaharin Penov, resigned. Who would have guessed that very soon – on March 4, 2015, during the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Vuchkov himself would have to resign. By his own admission, because of differences of opinion with Boyko Borisov.
Vuchkov also showed character by getting into an argument with the Minister of Defense over the role of the military in protecting the border. He demonstrated the spontaneous experience of an analyst when, on February 2 of this year, he denied the claims that, due to the lack of information exchange with partner services, people with radical views are passing through our country. Regarding the dangers of migratory pressure, Vuchkov emphasized that “the problem is rather that the intelligence services themselves in Europe and at the national level sometimes do not have any information about people who are preparing radical actions. This is due to weak analytical, intelligence, information services capabilities’ and pledged that the changes coming in the coming weeks are for the better, not the worse. I strongly hope that 2015 will be historic in terms of having intelligence laws, he added. So it seemed that he had things in his hands and step by step he was able to introduce some reforms in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Regarding the laws in the Security sector, which were recently introduced in the parliament by none other than Tsvetan Tsvetanov, then Vuchkov optimistically claimed that “they should be introduced this month, even with their shortcomings”. After that, if necessary, further discussions should be held and all deficiencies should be addressed, he stated. It was not clear whether his team or the former minister Tsvetanov made the compilation of the laws in question, but in any case they were submitted when Rumiana Bachvarova was already the interior minister.
What Vuchkov will be remembered for was the reduction of several thousand staff members and the reduction of the employees of the Ministry of the Interior to 49,500. It was his idea to make changes to the Criminal Procedure Code to prevent the possibility of people with convictions leaving the country. As well as introducing the use of electronic bracelets under the imposed measure of “house arrest”.
While under Vuchkov, however, there was a feeling that something was being done in the system, or at least there was an intention to be done, Rumyana Bachvarova, appointed by Boyko Borisov as interior minister, became an emanation of demagoguery and embellished rhetoric. She explained Vuchkov’s resignation with the report he submitted to Borissov about changing the heads of the National Security Service and the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “The legal directorate of the Ministry of Justice, after a thorough analysis of the report, came out with the opinion that such a change is not good to do at the moment,” she explained, closing in on the possibilities of her own sociological statement. And in order to gain more certainty, he added that Borisov had spoken with Vuchkov, stressing that it is not appropriate to change people in these key positions at a time when the head of the FBI is coming to Bulgaria for a visit. And that’s it.
What Borisov says is the only right thing in Bachvarova’s eyes. And the prime minister defined Vuchkov’s move as a cop-out. Thus, both sociological and “struggle” rhetoric created the feeling that power is used only for personal needs, not for public benefits. That the actions are determined by the top of the power, and the public has no say. That the reforms are expressed in simple staffing.
“I have never done a cop trick. But a cop trick was the Kostinbrod affair, the Orlin Alexiev affair, with which the Ministry of Internal Affairs directly engaged in a political provocation with Prime Minister Borisov, also the KTB scandal, the Lyaskovets failure…” Vuchkov said. On April 28 of this year, he was no longer a member of the GERB, after the National Assembly voted for his resignation as a member of parliament.
On March 11, Rumyana Bachvarova was appointed by Boyko Borisov as Minister of the Interior.
The whistleblower these days in Garmen is a sociologist who rose from the head of Borisov’s political cabinet in his previous term to deputy prime minister and, coincidentally, interior minister in the current one. He went to Garmen to shine with all the power of his impotence. People realized they had a minister telling them “nothing can be done”, “we will check the address registrations” and sent her off with shouts of “Mafia” and “Whoah”.
The managers claimed that it would give a new chance to the Security sector because it would strengthen civil control over the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This has not happened so far. At the same time, reports of domestic crime are becoming more frequent, people do not believe in the police, they openly say that there is no state. The information about migratory pressure does not lead to taking any specific measures along our native border.
It is reported that we are making a contact center with Greece and Turkey on “Captain Andreevo”, that the government will create an agency for e-government, that a special bureau, managed by a single person, will fight corruption… Indiscriminate ideas and actions, where the role of the interior minister remains unclear , although the services are subordinate to her. But in terms of posts, Bachvarova is a leader – she heads the Council for Development at the Council of Ministers, which is a coalition body for consulting on strategic issues. He heads several more – the Council for Administrative Reform and the Council for e-Governance, as well as an advisory council to the Ministry of Defense for Disaster Protection. As we understand, E-governance is also within her competences, already in her capacity as Deputy Prime Minister.
Bachvarova speaks with the competence of a sociologist on all issues, but there is no specifics behind the words. No knowledge, no analysis, no expertise. Her analyzes are reduced to general stories like: “No one has tried to stop the smuggling channel of Kapitan Andreevo. Stricter measures are needed for traffic violators. Cameras replace the creation of a control system.”
Regarding the migration pressure, she also seems to expect someone else to initiate solutions, and she only makes statements like this – “”We are working on all lines against human trafficking. We work inside the country and along the border.” Or – “If we can deal with this problem, we will relieve a lot of our border security efforts. Legislative proposals in the field of migration pressure are being prepared”. In literature, similar ideas are called plagiarism, in politics – demagoguery and populism. Even the legislative initiative does not come from her, but from Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who introduced the four draft laws in the Security sector.
There was no shortage of scandals surrounding the minister. When it became clear that DANS detained her former partner from the Executive Commission of GERB Tsvetelina Stoyanova during an operation in which an organized criminal group selling newborn children was broken up, Bachvarova justified herself by saying that she had not been in partnership with her for 5 years. That’s all gone.
Our society is already tired of scandals in the so-called elite, it is bored by the sense of impunity of a clique calling itself “politicians”, and it quickly passes over the blunders and incidents that previously blew it up. It is as if we are already resigned, we are getting used to the feeling of injustice. And we watch them sugar coat our own lives, lying to us that this is how they protect us from harm.
Because of all this we are losing our country, and is it still there? More and more often we ask ourselves about this…
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Svetlana Belousova, editor at BGNES Information Agency.
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