Anything the parties do outside of official campaigning will be used by opponents to the detriment of their political enemies.
This is what political scientist Georgi Kiryakov told FOCUS.
The important topics in the election campaign – about the future management, about the economy, education, health care, social policy, sink into the media field against the background of more spectacular and scandalous topics. "We are talking about the scandal that is currently being provoked by GERB-SDS about the reorganization of traffic in the capital; we are talking about the overexposure of the case of Kiril Petkov's accident with an NSO car; we are talking about Boyko Borisov's statement that the wall of AM "Struma“ has fallen due to the negligence of the previous rulers. The rhetoric of the GERB party is that once someone else rules, they will attack him. Even if GERB accepted this reorganization in the center of Sofia, since there are dissatisfied citizens, they will take advantage of this situation of dissatisfaction and use it to their advantage against the political opponent, commented the political scientist.
He noted that the data of sociologists present the current political picture, and very often in the first half of the election campaign it turns out to be inaccurate. "It all depends on how the campaigns of the individual parties will develop, i.e. electoral attitudes. It depends on many other factors, including a decision on the day for the reflection of a large part of the voters”, noted Kiryakov.
In the campaign PP-DB rely solely on the thesis that they will fight against the state controlled by GERB and DPS and that this is Bulgaria's main struggle, the political scientist pointed out. "They make the usual mistake of this type of parties – they go around the country, meeting only and only with their sympathizers and relying only and only on the media and the media appearances of the leaders. In some places, probably almost no one will know who the candidates are from the list, new faces will not be imposed, the old, well-known faces will be relied upon,” commented Georgi Kiryakov.
The political scientist expects an even lower voter turnout than in the previous elections. "This is what GERB-SDS and DPS rely on – of this type of refusal of democracy, of civic participation and fatigue. There is expectation and hope that things should move in the direction of change, but people don't see that change in "The Change". This is a huge problem and they will probably be waiting for the next bearer of this energy. There is energy in people, it just needs to be channeled somewhere. The PP-DB failed to control it, they lost it, they scattered it, and now the wait is on, Kiryakov stressed.
In his words, "The Left", "Solidarity Bulgaria" and "Blue Bulgaria” they rely precisely on the disappointment of people wanting change.