What kind of political situation are we in… Vadim, have you learned from the past time and events in Bulgaria. Do we have political engineering and what is the future of BSP. Hristo Monov spoke to FACTS – crisis psychologist and former member of parliament from the group of socialists.
- Mr. Monov, you solve psychological crises, but you also have experience in politics. Is there a pill, is there a therapy to get out of the political crisis we are in?
- The situation is critical. It is even a critical-extreme situation considering what we observe on the political terrain. You ask for a solution… The solution is for people who are in different positions and in different camps in the same party to start talking to each other. To talk tete a tete, as they say, not through the media. We see what is happening in DPS. A party that actually preserved ethnic peace in those years, even at the risk of becoming a party of one ethnicity. Now I read that even the passwords for their "Facebook" pages were a big problem in the DPS. It doesn't work like that. True leaders are seen in critical situations, then it is clear who is who.
- DPS split into Peevski and Dogan. Until recently, this was unthinkable, but today it is a fact. How did it come to this, how do you explain it…
- It came to this, I think, because… I have known this party since it appeared on the political scene in late 1989 and early 1990. There was a Komsomol organization at the university – Bulgarian Democratic Youth (BDM) was baptized, and I was an active participant in these processes. Then there was a rally they came to. At the heart of the rally was their demand to return their birth names. At the time, no one had thought that these people - it was a cold January day and we opened the doors of the university to them so that they could go to the toilet, as they said, they would have a party. Indeed, it was unthinkable to split the DPS after so many years. But… Already as a psychologist, I reason that
at the basis of this split in the DPS are the peculiarities of Mr. Peevski's personality.
I have known him for a long time. Ever since the time when Tsvetan Vassilev used to say to him - son, son. After that, in the National Assembly, I voted for Peevski to become the head of DANS, because I had heard what his intentions were as head of DANS. Then suddenly I was also a direct witness of his raiding against Tsvetan Vassilev's KTB.
Peevski - a needle in a bag does not fit.
This guy is bubbling with energy. The bad thing about him is that the political costume he has put on, his political style, which he demonstrates, does not match the image and characteristics of DPS voters. They are hardworking, humble, tolerant people, they respect each other's space. And Mr. Peevski can't do that.
- You supported Peevski as head of DANS because…
- I still don't feel like talking much because it's been a while. But then he was explaining in the National Assembly building how he was going to arrest certain people.
- To understand that he approached …
with determination - There were such requests. But even then, as we warned him that these things should not be spoken, he did it.
When you speak in front of 20 people, at least three are traitors.
This is an old Bulgarian tradition. And then so quickly we saw protests. They were prepared. That's just not how things happen two hours after his election and people have already come out on the yellow pavements. All this was the work of an embassy which is near a Government Hospital. If you see the representatives of which companies with their entire offices were there, you will know. They were mostly American companies. That's the way it is. Thank God, however, the things that were more thoroughly prepared, and the fact that Mr. Peevski withdrew, stopped the processes. Otherwise, we didn't care about the Maidan.
- The last four years have been politically very intense, but what makes an impression on you, what will you remember them by? We have new parties…
- The last four years have been dynamic, but apart from political engineering, they can hardly be remembered for anything else. And incompetent political engineering. All protests produce something. Let's go back to 1989 and the first protest I was at. It was the one on November 3 at “Ekoglasnost“. Then we went with a friend because, leaving the university, I saw them. They carried a placard. When we reached them, some guys who were walking in black suits told us: “Comrades, you further back, further back…” All those who carried the banner of “Ecoglasnost”, who “were beaten” in Crystal's kindergarten, thump-thump, they became great representatives of the people. This can be verified. This is where and how political engineering started in Bulgaria. On June 9, 2020, when President Radev came out with his fist raised, I was five meters away from him. However, I did not have the feeling at the time that this would be political engineering. My professional instinct suggested that there was genuine dissatisfaction with what was happening in the country. And Radev's reaction was the apotheosis of the invasion of Geshev and the prosecutor's office in the presidency. Then some of these people… You see what happens to us from the pepeta. I gave my opinion about them already on November 20, 2021. I used a folk wisdom:
„It's not good to be happy about a little pig and a new boss, because you don't know what kind of pig it will become!“
Political engineering - that's how I rate the last four years. Inept political engineering at that. Everyone is trying to pin it on the president, but without him having anything to do with this political engineering. From the outside, what kind of people shocked us, and from the inside, a poorly made police formation. A political entity is created around the ideas and interests of certain groups of society, and the pepeta are turlyugyuvech.
To be continued…