A humiliating picture, in which nothing statesmanlike is visible. This is how the co-chairman of "Yes, Bulgaria" Ivaylo Mirchev commented on last night's interview with GERB leader Boyko Borisov on bTV on social networks.
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I was watching Borisov on air today and I thought how political life in Bulgaria currently looks awfully like a low-quality pawnshop. One of those places where dependent people, pressed by their vices, go to pawn something truly valuable and get a temporary reprieve from the impending ruin. The bad thing is that in the pawnshop of Bulgarian politics, some people are betting the future of our country to save their own asses. They are betting its democracy, its geopolitical orientation, and through the consequences of corruption - they are betting our lives. All of us, because none of us, not even they themselves, have a guarantee that they will not end up a victim of that beaten-up section of the road, of that bought driver's license, of that flood due to overbuilding, of that hospital infection that has lingered for years because the money for quality repairs to the ward keeps leaking somewhere. And if it is difficult for us to imagine the big stake, Bulgaria, it is good to at least remember that the others, supposedly smaller ones, are equally unacceptable
If you listen to Borisov's speech, you will hear it - the eternal slander between the parties: "When Peevski asks me, I comply", "we reduced the sections abroad because I was fulfilling a commitment to "Vazrazhdane". Do you understand what he is saying? His commitment is not to Bulgaria, but to "Vazrazhdane". To ITN. To Peevski. That is why there is no point in commenting on his attacks on us and his insane overheated accusations. It is clear where they come from. The one cornered is ready to do anything to free himself from the trap he has gotten himself into. A humiliating picture in which nothing statesmanlike is visible.
For contrast, I would like to remind you of something that Hristo Ivanov said on February 3, 2023, on the last day of the 48th National Assembly: “When a person stands on the parliamentary rostrum, it is easy to see the different camps and the specific individuals who have offended him or her and now he or she must retaliate. It is easy to see the cameras in the hall and beyond them the voters to whom he or she can send certain messages. But what all of us in the plenary hall should try to see is Bulgaria. Because this is one of the places from where it is seen most clearly and in all its contradictions, diversity, and difference."