It is possible for the government to get out of the crisis right now, predicted in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio the political scientist Prof. Rosen Stoyanov, director of "Political Analyses and Forecasts" at "Gallup"
"I'm sorry to say it, I respect the person of Rosen Zhelyazkov, but it seems that we are not referring to the government, but to the GERB leader's ability to maneuver, he has done it many times as prime minister. If they are smart and capable, they will turn the crisis into an opportunity, "the political scientist explained.
In "Nedelya 150" he commented on the situation surrounding the withdrawal and revision of the 2026 Budget project, there will be concessions, and Zafirov stated that the BSP will withdraw from the coalition.
"I will look at it from 3 perspectives. One is standard - there have always been changes between the first and second readings, and they have not always been positive for the financial framework. The second is the complexity of managing this broad coalition - with a right-wing party like GERB and a left-wing one like the BSP, the balances are complex and are a matter of huge compromises. The third side is dissatisfaction in two shades. The logic of the opposition and what we call "protest energy" and comes from the street is whether it is that dissatisfaction organic, inherent from 2013, the more pragmatic one from 2020 or something fundamentally new", analyzes Prof. Stoyanov. According to him, Zafirov's warning about withdrawing support for the BSP from the coalition, "does not necessarily mean the fall of the government":
"In this situation, in this National Assembly and this distribution of powers and on the other hand, the budget appears as a kind of vote of confidence in each government. This law is a guarantee for the medium-term stability of each government. We, the citizens and the society, through our activities and representatives, constantly control the government, nothing bad happens. On the contrary, the government is under pressure, put to the test, there is a demand against it and it is logical and it must deal with the crisis."
He commented that many interpretations have been made of Borisov's statement about "reformatting":
"While we are talking wishfully and what the author said, things remain in the wild political competition. There is a possibility within the framework of this National Assembly to send a signal that the ruling party must form an attitude for change and the management policy, and a direction in which it should develop, even of specific persons in the government. I think there is nothing wrong with that."
Regarding the protests, political scientist Prof. Stoyanov explained that the energy of those participating in the protests in 2013, 2020 and 2025 can be distinguished and trends can be determined on this basis:
"Increasingly, the protests will be young, more youthful, fun, interesting, performance-type, violent, disagreeable, against everything and everyone - against the status quo, hopeful, romantic and in a certain sense naive. I sincerely hope that they will be increasingly categorical, but also specific. Because the reference to the protests of the youth in Serbia allows us to conclude that without specifics, this primary energy of the protest, if it delegates trust to someone to speak on their behalf, things will become blurred. Even worse, they will be biased, crudely and brutally used, just as our generation was used in the 1990s by politicians."