With today's actions, the president made a clear request for active participation in politics. This is not a political failure, but a political clash. This was said by the chairman of the Bulgarian Association for Political Sciences, Prof. Rumyana Kolarova, in an interview with "Focus".
She recalled that during the previous nomination of Prime Minister, the President justified his maximally passive position. "It is clear that it associates the change in the situation with a change in its own strategy – for active participation in politics. At the same time, he puts himself at a greater risk”, Prof. Kolarova believes.
By taking such a position, the president relies on some kind of polarization in the already clearly polarized Bulgarian society, said Rumyana Kolarova. Whether this position is profitable will become clear in a week, when the sociological polls come out, she added.
Kolarova was categorical that the country is not in a constitutional crisis, as there is an active caretaker government. "If a new caretaker government cannot be formed, the president will be forced to issue a decree to schedule elections and to re-appoint the existing government, if he does not want to put the country in a situation of free fall,”, she commented.
The appeal to the people's representatives "to fill out the home book” in her words it is an empty phrase. "Because it is clear that in this National Assembly there is no majority for any positive decision. To elect a new ombudsman and his deputy requires, firstly, a lot of time and secondly, it implies something that is not present in this National Assembly – forming a majority. The president's attempt to wash his hands of this parliament in this case did not work”, commented the chairman of the Bulgarian Association for Political Sciences.