The MPs should they receive salaries from the day they elect a government. At the moment, they take between BGN 8,000 and BGN 6,000, depending on how many committees they participate in. If this policy is changed, there will be an interest among MPs in completing their main task for which they were elected - a government and a working parliament.
This is what he suggested in the show “This Sunday” on bTV PR expert Diana Damyanova. Together with Mira Badjeva, she discussed the third mandate and the expected new parliamentary elections in the fall.
„The same thing has been happening for three years and something – we observe a total reluctance on the part of the politicians, who should define the policies in Bulgaria, to hear what the people think about them. "Politicians speak only to their narrow party core and do not hear the fringes, which actually form the majority," Mira Bajeva pointed out.
According to her, the low voter turnout says only one thing: “We do not hurt you in this way”, but the politicians refuse to understand it, and therefore nothing new will happen in the fall.
„People do not want them and that is a fact, but there is no other way because our politicians are of poor quality. In the last ten years, the Bulgarian political system has proved to be incapable of producing leaders, and the lack of leaders in the parties is something very visible. Ideology is also missing, commented Diana Damyanova for her part.
She sees the main problem in the fact that we do not have a civil society that can control politicians and impose their opinion. For her, there is a “big trap between politicians without qualities and the people who elect them”.
„In established democratic societies, people's refusal to participate in politics is not so pronounced. If such apathy is still observed, there they have well-built and excellently functioning structures that allow the state to move forward, not as it is in our country – everything should stop while waiting for a regular government”, explained Diana Damyanova and gave an exotic proposal: “Deputies should start receiving salaries from the day they elect a government”.
According to Mira Badjeva, the political situation at the moment is a little different, because the disintegration of two monolithic parties is observed – BSP and DPS. She thinks that there are some chances that the socialists will part with Kornelia Ninova, while the situation with Delyan Peevski is more stressful.
„Peevski, in some not very reasonable way, illuminates all his carp in power and the media – where he's had any of his own people, they just fizzle because he's nervously pushing all the buttons that can be pushed. This betrays a kind of hysterical state”, explained Mira Badjeva.
She also commented on the escalating tension between Delyan Peevski and Rumen Radev, pointing out that the DPS chairman “has the instinct to choose the strongest player on the political field and starts fighting with him”.