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Borissov and his people use the same tactics every time they come to power. As soon as the elections are over, they try to form a certain political consensus on the basis of which their government will subsequently rest. Which aims to achieve three results. First of all, to ostracize the activity of the political opposition to the extent that it loses its authenticity. If you support the big goals of an administration, it sounds disingenuous to want to change it. In the second place, devoid of ideology, GERB use the problems of the news to impose them as an agenda for the whole society. They are really good at presenting the construction of a barbed wire fence as a major national priority. And thirdly, by realizing the first two goals, they get the opportunity to maximally cover up their managerial failures and suppress public sentiment against them.
Partly due to the smaller number of parliamentary groups, GERB’s task is easier today. They have only the BSP against them. And as it became clear, they had already made their offer to her – the post of chairman of the National Assembly for Kornelia Ninova and the stay of Denitsa Zlateva in Borisov’s office. The socialists refused the proposal and apparently now we will move on to the second phase – attempts to isolate and stigmatize them.
The arrows were already flying towards their leader. And it seems to be working. Ninova was put into explanatory mode. She has to justify both the election loss, as if public opinion polls before the vote showed a definite advantage for the Reds, and the pro-European orientation of her party. Which, apart from being a sign of weakness, closes the BSP’s option to fight for the support of the large Eurosceptic community in Bulgaria. Analysts race to trumpet how the words that “democracy has taken us a lot” have helped GERB, but miss the fact that they may have brought quite a few votes for the socialist party.
In any case, today’s challenge for the BSP is not so much to withstand the blows as not to be seduced by the options of collaborationism and apathy. If it succeeds, it would be able to play the role of the main alternative to GERB, which in itself is a favorable position and, in addition, will keep Borisov’s third government in constant tension. And this is the biggest nightmare for the prime minister himself – to be placed under internal monitoring, which will monitor his every action and respond critically to him.
The fate of the cabinet itself actually depends on the elimination of this threat or its realization. It is not the votes in parliament but his reputation that will determine his fate. That is why the Borisov-Ninova clash will also determine our immediate political future.
It seems that GERB will have no problems with the other parties. Mareshki’s “Will” will be ready for anything just to prolong the existence of the parliament, because there is no life beyond it for the party. DPS has just won a tough victory against DOST and is not eager to repeat the match. It needs time for Mestan structures to be demobilized and dismantled.
With the patriots, the problem has already been solved: they happily settled into the role of the junior partner. The poor people, blinded by their petty tricks, did not even realize that they had become experienced mice for the Gerber manipulators. First, immediately after the election, they persuaded them that they had asked for a lot of seats in the future cabinet, followed by massively inviting them to all kinds of studios, where they had to justify that there was no such thing, and finally, to demonstrate their complete selflessness, they declared that are ready to support the government even without their people entering it. Here the good father from Bankya appeared, who said that she would like to have representatives of the “United Patriots” in the cabinet, but Siderov, Karakachanov and Simeonov had already entered the image of receiving alms.
Now they will have ministers not because they want to carry out certain policies, but because Borisov was kind to them. But they never understood the game, captivated by their own standing in front of the television screens, given to the feeling that they were carrying out their campaign promises with great courage and energy. And in fact, after they failed to enforce their main message – for a BGN 300 minimum pension, everything else rings hollow. Like their own mannequins.
GERB fulfilled their program as a minimum – ensuring parliamentary support for their third cabinet, they are working on their program as a maximum – the discrediting of Kornelia Ninova, and it seems that they are on the way to finally realizing a full management mandate. But in fact, their situation does not look rosy.
For the first time, they enter the executive branch with the halo of being part of the problem, not the solution. They are trying to cover up the international situation, but the Bulgarians are unlikely to fall for their trick. There is no way the virtuosos of corruption can produce stability. Their main appeal – “let us govern so it doesn’t get worse” will increasingly echo as “don’t watch us steal”.
The scandals with the “uranium” water in Haskovo, the Tsatsarov-Donchev meeting, the media attack against Valery Simeonov pose not so much a real problem as a symptom of society being ready to accept anti-GERD messages. Against this background, to talk about a full four-year term means deliberately “pulling the cat by the tail”.
If you have received more trust than you deserve, and you don’t justify it, disappointment sets in quickly. And GERB does not justify trust. He can only imitate such activity. When the party is not stealing, they are throwing their efforts into creating a virtual reality. In which Borisov rules wisely and fairly, where construction is done without stealing, where the judiciary is independent, the media is free, and the people flourish.
In fact, if we are talking about a parallel country in Bulgaria, it is worth thinking about whether its existence does not also give life to the GERD phenomenon. Once there is such a mass of informal relations between institutions, groups and individuals, built for the purpose of enrichment, it is normal for them to be channeled politically. That is why GERB and its leader stand so naturally in our socio-political background. They bring us a beautiful fiction that increasingly degrades our reality.
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