There is an overall public feeling that this cannot go on any longer and the parties in the National Assembly must take responsibility for forming a government because otherwise there will be a very strong backlash in terms of the parties themselves .
This is what Genoveva Petrova, a sociologist from "Alpha Research", told BNR. and commented:
"The parties do not broadcast signals to their voters, signals with which to motivate their participation in the elections and support for the actions they take.
"We have no reason to expect the parties themselves to offer us something new and different. They offered us everything, which was still accepted easier or more difficult by the voters, but the parties themselves did not wear it to the end," she added.
According to Petrova, some kind of public challenge to the parties could discipline them and approach the upcoming elections differently:
"We have never before heard the parties state in advance what governance formulas they would enter into after the elections. Something that their countries in Europe do often - they state what coalition formulas they would enter into. In order for such a thing to happen in our country, there must be constant insistence on the part of society and the media towards such behavior of the parties. Otherwise, we risk entering once again into a campaign of accusations, which we have seen to be ineffective.
Genoveva Petrova emphasized that parties debate and reach consensus on the basis of political technology:
"If the conversation about the political system is conducted in the way that the political conversations in the country have been until now, we as a society should not allow such a conversation to take place. If there are real social, political, value and ideological prerequisites to have such a conversation, that is another matter. But at the moment I don't see such prerequisites in Bulgaria".