With Krum Zarkov, we stand on diametrically opposed ideological positions - he is an authentically left-wing, sincerely progressive person, one of the Camus-reading and Sorbonne-graduated European socialists.
This is what political analyst Kristian Shkvarek wrote on Facebook regarding the election of Zarkov as chairman of the BSP.
"And that is precisely why it is an extreme surprise to me that such a person is elected party leader of one of the old parties in our country. It is almost like a miracle in a country where party leadership is most often a function of how good an apparatchik and schemer you are, that an authentic ideologue can reach such a post. And even from an ideology that you don't agree with.
It gives me some hope that a generational change is possible, and that after the end of the transition, in our country too, ideologues will finally be professionally involved in politics, instead of scoundrels. People with whom you can talk at length about the ideological trends that his party is following, rather than about the schemes it is spinning. Zarkov is like that," he pointed out.