Source: glasove.comStefan Antonov
The ability to suppress your ego is one of the most important skills on the path of growth. It is embedded in a number of religions and philosophical currents, but if we need an example of how its absence can be harmful, it is enough to look at Bulgarian political life. After the newly formed party of Slavi Trifonov – “There is such a people” won the elections in 2021, it took itself too seriously or, on the contrary, realized that it was not ready for the chance it was given and preferred to hide behind the facade of exclusivity and uniqueness , dooming negotiations to form a government to failure and betting on each subsequent vote to lose more and more support.
“Democratic Bulgaria” also went down the same path, without whose claim to sanctity, which caused the elections from the fall of 2021, there would not have been a niche for the creation of another city party with an exaggerated sense of exclusivity and elitism like “We continue the change”. The DB’s punishment was to lose 18 parliamentary seats, falling from 34 to 16 in the 47th National Assembly. Then, thanks to the incompetence of Kiril Petkov and Asen Vassilev, which caused their fall from power in the summer of 2022, DB took a slight revenge, jumping from 16 to 20 people’s representatives, but in the 48th National Assembly, both parties failed to impress at all. except with their blind pro-European declarations and claims that they are the only non-corrupt ones. Congratulations, in the New Assembly they will have the lowest overall result since both parties share the society of the active urban population.
If there is any meaningful explanation, beyond narrow-minded persistence with the same approach to achieve different results, I would appreciate anyone sharing it. Before that happens, we can explain their reluctance to take part in power, and possibly to hinder the formation of a government in the 49th National Assembly, only as an escape from responsibility.
For the first time since 2020, Bulgaria is facing an economic crisis. For the first time since 2008, Bulgaria is also facing a financial crisis. For the first time since 1938, Bulgaria is faced with a new deal of cards between the so-called great powers. Then it took seven years from the shuffling of the cards to the Yalta conference, when each of the great powers gave up some unnecessary card, took another they held and shaped the post-war world.
And now, as then, Bulgaria has a multi-party system in bulk. Fortunately, instead of an infant monarch whose regents do not possess the capabilities of the deceased Boris the Third, today at least the president realizes the nature of the processes taking place in international relations. If someone accuses him of usurping power, with the behavior of PP and DB, it will be more than ridiculous, but there is another truth. She points out that there is no statesman with the vision and desire to write his name in history, who sees that the circumstances allow him to consolidate power and navigate his country in such times and decide to pass. If Kiril Petkov as a businessman thinks that after a cataclysm power can be given to him in a casserole, then the pilot, military man and statesman Radev has no way of seeing an opportunity to gain a strategic advantage and pass with a tactical move.
Whether we like it or not, Rumen Radev fills a vacuum that politicians themselves create. If it comes to another early election this year, there will be a serious possibility that it will turn out that Radev is the face symbol of our government while the war in Ukraine lasts, and if our country gets away with disaster, it will be him, not the parties be the politician with historical credit for preserving what little remains of statehood in Bulgaria.
On the contrary – parties with the claim of systematicity and elitism, it will turn out that they were holding on to their toes all the time and will be punished. Because whenever it comes to elections, the parties are judged on their immediate merits, and it will be clear to them that they have only hindered the parliamentary activity and the adoption of the much-needed laws with which to adequately meet the external economic and military dangers.
Analogues in this regard are not few. When a nation faces trials and challenges, statesmen fold their hands. Churchill led England on the eve of World War II and paid for the victory he won with an electoral loss. After that, however, he regains power. In Bulgaria 26 years ago, Ivan Kostov also got the chance to rule when Bulgaria was economically brought to its knees and although he lost the election he won recognition for the reforms he made. And who knows, if he had not chosen a strategy of being a wise hermit, and hiding behind some rocket launcher, as GERB was in 2009, and had defended his views publicly and boldly, maybe he would have directly touched management.
Without the merits of Ivan Kostov, but with their threats the day before yesterday to expel one, or throw another out of politics, or put a third in prison, “We continue the change” and “Democratic Bulgaria” can only receive ridicule. Hristo Ivanov seemed to have learned his lesson when he decided to challenge Delyan Peevski in Veliko Tarnovo and was humiliated to say the least, but the wisdom remained only in words. The times are not far when Kiril Petkov and Asen Vassilev will also feel what it is like to be left by people, because votes are not given to stand in the corner and look pretentiously. They let you work.
People who have been through the army, either as soldiers or personnel, know that until the superiors find them a job, they can do little. To clean the weapon, make a frill, and then sit down and smoke a cigarette. PP and DB do the exact opposite. There is so much work to do. There is no dispute about how it should be done. But they choose to sit down and smoke a cigarette because they don’t agree on who will finish it. This cannot go unpunished.
