The cabinet of “Rosen Zhelyazkov“ survived for 330 days before the prime minister resigned yesterday.
“The protest demanded resignation. After the first, very short, fleeting request for a change in the budget, the demands escalated to resignation and that was very clear. It was very clearly visible on the square, it was very clearly visible in the statements of the protest leaders. In this regard, there was no disagreement between the majority of the protest“. This was commented on in “This Morning“ on bTV Boryana Dimitrova, sociologist from "Alpha Research".
„There is no doubt that this was an extremely large-scale protest, both in its strength and not only in the number of attendees, but in this type of energy and the combination of completely different generations“, she pointed out. According to her, the young generation has not yet experienced disappointments.
„Such large-scale protests are characterized by the fact that there is agreement on the negative agenda - what we do not want. And we saw in many posters what we do not want - anti-corruption, anti-addictions, non-transparent distribution of funds. We really want human dignity, we do not want to be humiliated. We saw this in a variety of forms. The difficult part from now on is agreement on the positive agenda," commented Boryana Dimitrova.
"The things that the people of the protest are against - some of them are not resolved quickly. An independent judicial system, independence between institutions, mutual control, this is a long process on which there must first be agreement", she also noted.
According to her, the protest has achieved the important part, but agreement on the agenda is yet to be reached and the longer and more difficult procedures are yet to be completed.
"Ivaylo Mirchev said the new word yesterday, which will become the modern one, as before it was "dismantling" – "degradation", sociologist Andrey Raichev pointed out.
"There was not a single Ukrainian flag at the protests. It's unbelievable. One third of them are strictly anti-Russian, pro-Ukrainian. There was not a single counter-provocation. Sorosites, smart, beautiful - nothing. The two groups, the two oppositions, which seemed to be in an insoluble clash, which is what this government was actually holding on to, firmly decided to limit themselves. An exceptional achievement“, he commented.
“Neither Radev said anything, nor Kostadinov said anything, nor the others“, he noted and added that there was a very high degree of political culture, which is striking.
According to him, the protest was gigantically larger than its organizers themselves expected. There was a very high degree of political culture.
“The people – "This is a nationwide rally, he intervened very culturally and very consciously in a situation that seemed completely insoluble," Andrey Raichev pointed out.
According to him, yesterday Boyko Borisov was in the best mood. "A month ago he said, 'I have to become prime minister, otherwise there will be trouble.' Peevski told him, 'no,'" the sociologist pointed out.
According to Raichev, "Bulgaria is in a new stage, there is a huge powerful factor on the ground - very highly politically aware people. And what will happen next is very difficult to say - this is not the same story. Just think about how 100 thousand people are synchronizing politically, and that's just in Sofia.".
According to him, we have sharply Europeanized and are already behaving in a new way. "We will fix our country", said Raichev.
According to him, over 3 million people will vote in the upcoming elections.
"The vote will determine a new political configuration if President Radev steps down and leads what has been awaited for so long", the sociologist noted. According to him, over 500 thousand will vote for the current head of state, "although according to some, a million people will vote for Rumen Radev".
Journalist Stoyana Georgieva noted that outrages have begun to become everyday life.
„The visible manifestations and demonstrations of a fat self-forgetfulness really irritated people. „We continue the change“ played a very significant role in provoking, in directing the public's interest towards the figure who is the most serious irritant“, she also commented.
"The figure who actually, both symbolically and literally, represents this conquered country. And at all these rallies, especially in Sofia, the message against Peevski was very clear. This is the main irritant", Stoyana Georgieva pointed out.
According to her, the public consensus is how to dismantle this model and this should be the agenda of all political forces.