It was expected that there will be a new deputy- Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. People with such an MIA background usually try to have people with operational functions and trust them. Kalin Stoyanov had confidence in Kalganjiev, Mr. Ilkov is looking for his operative solution. In principle, such changes should be avoided. This is about personal trust and part of the police culture.
In this way, Tihomir Bezlov, senior expert at the Center for the Study of Democracy, commented to Bulgaria ON AIR on the changes initiated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs after the change of the Minister of the Interior.
Political dependence in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the bought vote
The guest of the show "The Day ON AIR" pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance have a very large influence and usually the coalitions very carefully look at the balance in these ministries.
"The Ministry of Interior cannot decide the elections and cannot significantly change the balance in the elections. This is way overexposed. GERB kept its electorate during the time of Boyko Rashkov. For 15 years, the problem of the bought vote is that the brokers buy for several parties and ensure that there are no large concentrations in favor of one or another player. The problem is the corporate vote. Business decides. Negotiation is very interesting, especially at the local level. The corporate vote changes its preferences very quickly," Bezlov said.
What will the scandals in the DPS lead to
According to the interlocutor, Ahmed Dogan's wing has a very visible advantage in electoral terms, while "the other wing has great influence on the institutions that are currently in positions of power".
"We saw an attempt to demonstrate against Dogan and an unpleasant clash, which outside Bulgaria looks very worrying. As a form of ethnic conflict. This resembles Rosenets and already familiar episodes," Bezlov noted.
According to him, DPS is not exactly a European democratic party.
"There has been a leader there since the beginning of the transition. For 20 years, we have been predicting the end of the transition", Thihomir Bezlov also said.