It is pointless for the new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make major changes within two months, unless there are really fatal flaws. This is the opinion of the expert on national security academician Rumen Ralchev.
In the program "The Day ON AIR" he pointed out that it is time for Bulgarian politicians to think about what the Ministry of the Interior is and how the same problems are solved abroad.
"The minister should not be a policeman. He must be a politician, to some extent an opponent of professionalism in order to stimulate it to protect citizens. There is always a subjective factor between writing a plan and executing it. A good professional - why destroy him by making him a minister? After two months, he will be out of the system", Academician Ralchev told Bulgaria ON AIR.
"He's into things. He knows the people, especially those who will guard the ballot boxes, that is the police. The Ministry of the Interior is also divided into sectors. I don't know if they will put a new chief secretary in two months. Once the elections come, those the caretaker government appoints will remove them. There is too much tension and expectation in the Ministry of Interior. With this low voter turnout, buying 20,000-30,000 votes is nothing, but it makes a huge difference. In terms of volume, Bulgaria is one big European city", the expert pointed out.
Regarding the buying of votes, Academician Ralchev emphasized that the scheme in the Roma neighborhoods is clear and the law enforcement agencies know it well.
"The system has been working for so many years. It is shameful for someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is regionally responsible for such a neighborhood, to say that he does not know. It is also made in great sizes. When the money is late, nobody goes to vote," he summarized.