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Prof. Alexander Marinov: The "Gyurov" cabinet looks like an attempt at an "all against Peevski" coalition

With today's attack on the Deputy Prime Minister for fair elections, we see a very well-planned and extremely negative election campaign distributed among political figures and players, said sociologist Dobromir Zhivkov

Feb 19, 2026 18:40 45

Prof. Alexander Marinov: The "Gyurov" cabinet looks like an attempt at an "all against Peevski" coalition  - 1

There are several very impressive figures in the cabinet, such as the Minister of Education and the Minister of Culture, who are a real find for this government. This was said in "Face to Face" on bTV PR-expert Diana Damyanova, quoted by novini.bg.
The cabinet is doing quite normally. This is a political cabinet, which is more like "We continue the change-Democratic Bulgaria" and is a prelude to how Bulgaria will be governed in the future, she added.

It is certainly a highly political cabinet. It looks like an attempt at an "all against Peevski" coalition, said sociologist and former chairman of the Strategic Council to the President, Prof. Alexander Marinov.
In my opinion, however, this will have the opposite effect. This cabinet will be politically vulnerable because of its political coloring. It will be under political fire not only because of the fair elections, but because of the many problems accumulated over time, said Prof. Marinov.

With today's attack on the Deputy Prime Minister for the fair elections, we see a very well-planned and distributed by political figures and players, an extremely negative election campaign, said sociologist Dobromir Zhivkov.

This is a continuation of the attack over the "Petrohan" case and we see to what extreme levels politicians can go to denigrate their political opponent. We have never had this type of political propaganda, which relies on the lowest human passions. In my opinion, this crosses all boundaries, we can qualify it as a social pathology, stressed Zhivkov.

According to Diana Damyanova, passions over the "Petrohan" case have flared up because "this tragedy affects one of the pillars of Bulgarian society – children".

The institutions did not cope - everyone contributed to us not believing in the official version, she commented.
Distrust is something we cannot blame society for – it has been cultivated for a long time. The first information about the case was presented in a way that seemed to arouse doubts rather than dispel them. This should also be a lesson for the caretaker government – that if they do not start a policy that will gradually revive trust, no reforms will receive support, added Prof. Alexander Marinov.