We saw a transport staging, not a crisis, in Sofia. This opinion was expressed to the Bulgarian National Radio by political scientist Dimitar Avramov and commented:
"Unions whose leaders are directly connected to political parties that claim to be in opposition to the governance of Sofia, despite being from parties that have a majority and a controlling vote in the Municipal Council, this type of interest has created a crisis in the lives of people in Sofia, not in public transport".
In his words, the big question is "whether there is civil disobedience and obstruction in violation of the law, for which the people who committed this under the pretext of striking should bear responsibility":
"What the government did is bad theater. You can't let one class blackmail an entire city, then just take some money out of the state budget and say that you will do it, okay, come on. If Sofia can objectively afford to give higher incomes to people involved in the capital's transport, it should give them, if it can't - it shouldn't give them. But this should be an objective economic analysis based on the company's revenues. Perhaps the solution is a reasonable increase in the price of transport services. And not for the government to play the hero and pour money from the taxes of all citizens of the country. This is a bad socialist practice that must be stopped.
Avramov pointed out that the logical question is that since the police have received a 50% increase in their salaries, why shouldn't other budget structures and companies also receive more.
According to Dimitar Avramov, there is a possibility that the majority in the state government is carrying out some punitive operations with regard to the government in Sofia.
"I don't know who benefits from such crises. This is ghetto psychology - to make things worse for someone, so that later we can come out and say that we are somehow solving this issue. This is ghetto politics, poverty politics. This is a wrong formula. ... Now an unhealthy battle for power is being created in Sofia, which will not bring anything good. Only those who are in power and want to solve the crises by giving some money benefit from the crises".
Mayor Vasil Terziev failed to create a majority in the SOS, the political scientist emphasized.
"Sofian residents are suffering (in the words of Boyko Borisov - editor's note) at the moment not in terms of having a weak and unprepared mayor. The suffering is in terms of the legacy of GERB. We will suffer everything, we always suffer the politicians we elect".