The elections in our country have turned into a count of the hard cores, which are constantly shrinking . The representative democratic system functions in a perverse way.
This is what the sociologist Kancho Stoychev told "Focus“.
Parties and politicians are worn out, he believes. Despite the seemingly many parties that participate in the electoral process and enter the parliament, voters in practice have no choice and respond by not voting. "The humiliating thing is that the same people have been clogging up the Bulgarian political scene for decades, without a gram of glory. They just have to leave her. It is a shock to me that they have the face to address the Bulgarian voters.
These same people who protected the Constitution want to regain the people's trust without even correcting the stupid things they created. In two months, they will want to be elected again, they will form governments again and they will once again destroy the statehood in the country”, commented Stoychev.
The basic law was changed because of personal interests, he pointed out. "This is unacceptable! It simply means that there is no Constitution. "They made the changes without knowing what they were doing," the sociologist emphasized.
A large number of voters reject what is offered to them and bet on newly emerged parties in search of an alternative in politics. "We see that in recent years there is no election in which a surprise party does not appear, a party that even we, sociologists, find difficult to detect in pre-election research. All this speaks of a sick political environment”, Kancho Stoychev believes.
Politics cannot be done by putting labels, nicknames and persuasion, he was categorical. "It's as if politics in Bulgaria has turned into lying and the one who lies the most wins,” commented the sociologist.
According to him, the issue of future coalitions and the distribution of power will once again be at the center of the upcoming election campaign. "Election programs are complete nonsense! It's just a jumble of words there. They don't care at all to run any of the programs after that. There are no policies to improve the lives of Bulgarians and the business environment, to deal with the problems in the education and health system.
The only thing they care about is who will be the chief prosecutor, who will control the judges, who will control the prosecutor's office and how to put the opponent in jail. However, this is not the life of the Bulgarians, stressed Kancho Stoychev.
Processes of disintegration in political parties, according to him, cannot be overcome in a pre-election situation. "This could lead to an even greater disintegration of Parliament, with an even greater degree of antagonism than what we have now. Imagine two DPS and two BSPs that have red lines between them – this will only deepen the crisis”, the sociologist predicts.