“The leading message in the president's address was the request to become a leading figure of this anti-corruption majority“, said on bTV sociologist from “Alpha Research“ Genoveva Petrova.
“However, whether his inclusion in the parliamentary race will allow this majority to remain consolidated, or will it intensify the competition between the political players who occupy these positions, remains to be seen. This is one of the most curious things that we will observe until the elections“, she said.
According to her, the inclusion of Rumen Radev in the race is a very serious element of the upcoming election campaign.
„The fact is that there is a part of Bulgarian society that expected his inclusion with the idea of supporting him. At the end of last year, we had a survey that conditionally measured the potential of Rumen Radev's formation. The potential was outlined within limits similar to the support that GERB and PP-DB would have received at that moment“, Petrova said.
„We have yet to see whether support for him will remain limited within the political forces that were already emerging as a potential reservoir - sympathizers and “Vazrazhdane“, MECH, “Velichye“. Or will he manage to overcome the limits of this electoral body and attract both some of the non-voters and some of the supporters of PP-DB“, the sociologist commented.
“I think it is becoming even more important for political parties to state their position on the issue of whether they would work with him or not even before the elections. For the voters of many of them, this is an important dividing line, given some very controversial positions on geopolitical issues“, Genoveva Petrova believes.