Political scientist Dimitar Ganev expects the focus of political life in our country to shift from the National Assembly to the Council of Ministers after the categorical election victory of the "Progressive Bulgaria" party, NOVA reports. According to the analyst, the newly constituted parliament will function primarily as an executor of the party will of the majority, which opens up the possibility for deep structural reforms and personnel changes in key institutions such as the Supreme Judicial Council.
In recent years, the center of political power has been concentrated in the National Assembly due to its fragmented composition and the lack of a categorical majority. However, the situation is changing radically with the start of the 52nd National Assembly.
"The focus over the last five years has been on the National Assembly, because that is where the political leaders and the main positions of the political parties were. It seems to me that the parliament will become a more boring place and the focus will shift to the Council of Ministers, because that is where the initiatives will come from. The parliament will rather stamp the will of the party leadership, in the case of “Progressive Bulgaria””,”, pointed out Dimitar Ganev.
The political scientist is categorical that the great public support gives the future rulers a strong mandate for the necessary changes, but they must happen quickly.
"If structural reforms are made and spending is cut, then the time for this is at the beginning, because just a few months later the public and political resistance will be much more serious”, the expert told NOVA. He noted that such an opportunity was missing in the previous weak governments and their complex coalition relationships.
Ganev also commented on the expected personnel changes in the judiciary, predicting that the necessary qualified majority will easily be found in this parliament. "Until the last few years, there was no movement to replace the Supreme Judicial Council, because a two-thirds majority was not gathered. "This NA will obviously gather a two-thirds majority," he added, specifying that enough formations have applied to support the election of new members.
Regarding the collapse of the coalition between “Continue the Change“ and “Democratic Bulgaria“, Dimitar Ganev recalled that signs of contradictions had been public for a long time.
"The problems began even after the collapse of the coalition. It seems to me that the cup ran over with the preferential voting, which shifted the lists on the part of the Democratic Party and the choice of which multi-mandate district Assen Vassilev should enter from," explained the political scientist. He is convinced that in the coming years we will observe a serious competition between the two formations as to who will establish himself as a more legitimate representative of the community that has supported them together until now.