Politicians have a very serious challenge, which is related to returning people's trust to them, and it will be great if they succeed. But I doubt it, because it is so undermined and so gone that it is not even a question of trust, it is a question of interest. It seems that these were somewhat older processes, which started a little longer ago, which at the moment seem to crystallize even more with that notorious - "that we and the politicians live in two separate countries".
And it is becoming more and more clear, more and more visible, that we and the politicians live in two parallel countries. And that what politicians think people care about, people don't care about at all. This is what Radio "Focus" the social psychologist Assoc. Nikolay Dimitrov.
"I am sure that now, if we go out on the street and ask ordinary people what is happening in the country, they will not know. They won't be able to explain it any sooner. They know that there is an inexplicable chaos going on that is extremely irrational. But they will not be able to logically follow the thread of this chaos. Because even in every chaos there is some design, some thread, something that you can follow as a leading plot line, there is none here.
Some things are thrown and they are like an aerochocolate - you look at it from above, quite stable and thick chocolate. The moment you start eating it, it remains hollow inside. Or like chocolate eggs. And this thing has disappointed people for a long time. And people already less and less realize that they are the ones on whom things depend anyway. And this withdrawal, we will see it even more visibly in the next elections", Dimitrov pointed out.
However, according to him, the European elections will harm the internal elections:
"Because the Euroscepticism that has increasingly taken hold and intervened in the Bulgarian society will additionally affect the already sufficiently scary and terrifying skepticism regarding domestic politics. And we won't see any particular voter turnout in this election. Of course, these are things that the parties, especially the old, cationic parties, realize how good it is for them and consciously or purposefully provoke it. Because that means they will be able to work with their hard cores.
That is, they will rely on people they are sure will go to the polls and vote for them, which will be extremely dangerous and risky for new parties such as not only “Continuing the Change", but also as the parties on the left, which united in the last election, as possible new projects that will appear only in the near future, possibly.
They won't be able to rely on these hard predictable cores, and something very explosive has to happen, awakening, in that sense, people. So that they go and vote for some new project and it turns the accounts of the old parties. And in this sense, the big losers will be, in my opinion, “We continue the change", which is inevitable, given their behavior in recent months,", commented the social psychologist.