When the government starts to lose control, it reaches for its last reserve – fears

When the government starts to lose control, it inevitably reaches for its last reserve – fears. This is exactly what we are observing at the moment. Peevski and his entourage in the MRF are waving the “ethnic card“ like a piece of theatrical props, trying to suggest that the protests were dangerous, divisive, directed against one or another minority. However, the street is not buying this drama. Dogan's student remembers why, how and when to use fears, but he does not appreciate one thing – the trick is morally outdated. It does not catch the bait, as they say. The ethnic card was part of the establishment of the MRF, but today there is a “new beginning“. And in the “new beginning“ there are no ethnicities, there are “for the people“.

The protests from Sofia to Plovdiv and Pazardzhik clearly show one thing - people are chanting against corruption, not against ethnicity. They want an end to the backstage, not their neighbors. There is no ethnic hatred - there is hatred for the “Dogan-Peevski“ model (now more like just Peevski), which has been holding the state as a personal asset for 15 years. Peevski threatened the PP-DB that he would not allow them to “sow” ethnic hatred. Was there an ethnic element in the two protests against the government attended by thousands of people... There were demands for the resignation of the cabinet, and “Peevski to disappear from politics“.

Simple demands, right? And somehow Peevski couldn't stand it: "I advise them not to sow hatred, and ethnic hatred - my brothers, Turks, Pomaks, Roma, were shown on the screens. I will not allow them to do this as their leader. If they sow hatred, they will reap hatred."

And just when the squares were filling up, the DRF suddenly remembered the "No to Hate" campaign.

Convenient. Why didn't we hear this message during their election excursions, corporate votes, ballots, Saray lobbies and demonstrative contempt for institutions? "No to hate" sounds wonderful - when it doesn't come from people who have been generating political toxicity for 15 years.

Teacher and student - Dogan and Peevski know what fear is, what corporate hoops are. No matter how diligent they are in distributing portions, there is a fundamental difference between them – Dogan has not been sanctioned for corruption by the US and the UK.

Otherwise, Pazardzhik is a vivid example - there the MRF is celebrating a “new beginning“ and electoral victories, while protests are ripening in the same city. It is difficult to deny public tension when it literally explodes in front of your office. But instead of listening to the people, they decided to write their own script - winners, modern, European. But the street does not believe them. And the worst thing for the MRF - the street no longer fears them.

And Borisov?

He, as always, is trying to stand “between the drops“ – some support the budget, some support the protests, some are with the government, some are with the opposition. However, the time for this political juggling is coming to an end. When the squares are full, flexibility is not an advantage, but contempt for the people.

The truth is simple - the protests are not against Turks, Bulgarians, Roma, Muslims or Christians. They are against a political-economic system that begins and ends with two families - Dogan and Peevski, and which Borisov has willingly served over the years while claiming to be fighting it.

Now the fear is in their camp, not in society. From Pazardzhik to Sofia, from neighborhood streets to central squares, people are clearly stating:
No to corruption. No to behind-the-scenes. No to the model. And most importantly - this time it is clear who must go.