„There is no debate about political ideas. The dispute is about posts, about positions, about consuming power. This is heard, this sounds. I don't know if there will be a constitutional crisis, but definitely democracy in Bulgaria is in a severe crisis with the replacement of democratic values. This is what he commented in the show “Your Day” Mihail Mikov, former Speaker of the National Assembly and former Minister of Internal Affairs.
According to him, the amendment to the Constitution is the “fruit of severe frustration of the political forces with the authority of the president”. And the goal is to curtail the powers of the head of state. According to Mikov, there was an extremely good balance in the Constitution adopted by the 7th Grand National Assembly.
„It was a rather progressive form of restraint on the part of the authorities,”, Mikov said. “We are now commenting on the situation surrounding the official cabinet and the transition to a new parliament. The time will probably come to comment on the SJC and the defeats that happened there,”, commented Mikov.
According to him, we are not yet in a situation where all possible prime ministers refuse. “But even when this list was being made, it sounded absurd. The aim was to deprive the president of the opportunity to form an official cabinet and to extend the mandate of the parliament. And the current parliament was running away from this responsibility. Right now we have a blurring of responsibility. It is clear to everyone that the governor and deputy governors of the BNB, the ombudsman, the deputy ombudsman, in the Audit Chamber – these are political functions elected by the National Assembly. We are trying to create the appearance that there are absolutely independent people in Bulgaria,”, Mikov said.
In his words, it will inevitably lead to a political cabinet.
„There is no cabinet in which there is no certain political influence,”, he believes.
After the changes in the Constitution, according to Mikov, the big question arises: Who proposes the composition of the cabinet.
„The Prime Minister is elected from a list. With a functioning parliament and a broken majority that cannot produce a cabinet, what is the point of having a functioning parliament and what laws will it pass? Or will there be two-month situational majorities, according to the situation?”, Mikov asked.
He admits that the president's office is still political, but there is a clear responsibility here.
„It belongs to the president. Now who will be responsible? "The responsibility is absolutely blurred," he asked.
After the new elections, Mikov believes that the two largest coalitions will “first quarrel a lot, blame each other for the results of the 9-month rule, and then try to assemble something temporary again”.< /p>
He does not expect a political project from the president before the European elections. “ Such a thing is not possible. We will go through new fragmentation, new shifting of the representation, new internal and foreign policy losses for Bulgaria. This political instability undermines our authority. Foreign investments are at a low level. According to the Recovery Plan, we received nothing”, he commented.