Four years of Bulgaria cycles. Bulgaria is on pause. This is a definite waste of time. This either continues in a downward spiral, or someone with a dictatorial bias appears, who appeals to the people as a way out, commented Parvan Simeonov, a sociologist from Gallup International, in the Nova TV studio.
„We are on the eve of a crisis of democracy. That's the big question. What is this exit? It's a matter of content – can the politicians propose such”, he added.
„Protest sentiments erupt through the most unsuspecting places. They usually knock out some new big one. He will not appear in these elections. The expectation is for Radev in the future. They can kill in different places. It is enough to open YouTube and see how many interesting speakers are there that attract interest.
People appear who tell the opposite of utopias. They are a reaction. This public reaction can strike through unsuspecting places. Vanya Grigorova became a star. The problem now is that there is no unification, as for the local elections. At the second round in Sofia, a lot of protest votes gathered around her, but not now we don't have a second round. Now there will have to be an authentic vote," Parvan Simeonov pointed out.
"We're getting stuck, folks. Bulgaria is disappearing before our eyes. We calculate some formulas in whole days and that's how we've been living for the last four years. See where the activity metrics are going. Look at where they were after the last machine removal exercise and where the confidence in the election was – on the bottom. People hid from the exit polls so as not to say who they voted for. These are symptoms of an illness of the representation, added Parvan Simeonov.