"The Bulgarian people, the Bulgarian voter has wisely given one a message to all political forces, both small and large – that he will not give the king's crown to anyone".
This was stated by Stefan Yanev, leader of "Bulgarian Rise" and leader of the lists in the 24th MIR Sofia and in the 16th MIR Plovdiv before BNT, quoted by FOCUS.
"For the sixth time we are in elections in the last three years and there is no party that has a majority with more than 70 MPs. I.e. alone no one can rule. The Bulgarian people give us the message that young and old, regardless of who perceives themselves, we must sit down and understand each other, find a place and a way to agree, to interact politically in order to do something meaningful for the country. And that is our motivation. We from "Bulgarian Rise" we started formulating an idea at the beginning of April. We said that we will work on the formulation of a national goal and strategy for the next 10, 20, 30 years, God willing, and in a 50-year horizon, we will be able to look, which will guarantee the development of Bulgaria, outline the future, which we as a generation want to leave to our children, to our grandchildren, to the next generations. This is our political goal," Yanev continued.
As part of the 48th National Assembly "Bulgarian Rise" stated several basic positions. One is that the job of the parties is to seek agreement, interaction and how to build coalitions – clear coalitions with written rules and clear responsibilities. Then, because it was the crescendo in terms of everyone drawing red lines, they said to us "Well, you are kind of naive, vague". But now most people talk with this logic because that is the logic. And this is our task as the "Bulgarian Rise" party. – to find our place, because it is important for the country to have a stable government and working institutions, and not so much to put the labels "This party works, this one doesn't", comments Yanev.
According to him, this match has been played for years and the result is the same. "And at the moment, unfortunately, both through sociology and through experts and purely political talk, we are told "Well, look, the 50th parliament will more or less look like the 49th". And by suggesting to people that we are trying politically to do the same thing and expect a different result, what are we telling them? We have to change something," said the leader of "Bulgarian Rise".
He was not worried about the option of having new elections in the fall because "real democracy is when the people choose, and if the people's choice now is not good enough - let there be elections in the fall.
Yanev was asked to comment on the accident with the NSO car from Wednesday.
There are many loopholes. There is no need to comment on individual incidents. Because we can look at the system from the opposite point of view – tell me which system works so that we don't hang it and talk about reforms in others? But when we talk about reforms, when we talk about the future of the country, the point is to have a common idea, a common narrative, a common meaning, because reforms for the sake of reforms means that today we make some reforms and tomorrow we will reform them again. Striving for power for power's sake doesn't solve the problem either, because we need to have a meaningful idea, a script to go by. So this is the meaningful narrative, this is the way we from "Bulgarian Rise" we see things, Yanev explained.
And he continued: Therefore we determine that this national goal, the strategic framework that we have prepared – it is open to all parties, is the way to start such a conversation.
He explained that this was not a sprint, but a marathon run. Because as in many human activities, in this case and in the purely political, that law of physics applies to the critical mass – when there is enough of a critical mass of like-minded people that we need to put these things on the agenda and find the solution together, because if we are not convinced that we should go in this direction, tomorrow we will be off again in search of opportunities , which are from everyday life, Yanev explained.