Nothing suggests an increase in voter turnout, as no we see new political formations, no new political faces, no new political ideology on the ground to mobilize those voters who have stopped walking to the polls. Most of them know that it makes no political sense for them. This is especially evident after the "assembly" government, which was so unnatural that it made going to elections pointless. This is what the political scientist Slavi Vassilev commented in an interview with the "Focus" Agency. in connection with the upcoming elections and the future 51st Parliament.
"The pre-election messages of the various parties and their platforms should be the core of a campaign, but in Bulgaria this has not been the case for a long time, because the parties quickly forget their programs after entering the National Assembly, where the power it is forged on the basis not of policies, beliefs or ideology, but on the basis of purely party interests and arithmetic, and the programs are secondary", Vassilev explained.
Slavi Vassilev also commented on the expectations of sociologists regarding the possibility of up to nine political forces in the 51st Parliament: "It is completely natural for the voters to seek political parties and political formations to break out of this political stalemate in which Bulgaria entered with these leading political formations (ed. note - GERB, DPS, etc.)".
But he stressed that sociology does not always manage to account for all possible scenarios, giving the example of "Greatness", which managed to enter the 50th Parliament, but were not taken into account in the agencies' surveys.
The political scientist also commented on the proposed formula of a cabinet with a supra-party figure for a prime minister like Mario Draghi:
"In Bulgarian political life, a non-party prime minister means absolutely nothing. At the moment, Dimitar Glavchev is precisely, supposedly, supra-party, even though he is a former chairman of the National Assembly. If you see his rating, it will answer the question to what extent this cabinet inspires admiration among the citizens. I would say close to zero.
Supra-party cabinets whose responsibility is unknown, whose commitments to the main political parties are unknown to the public, could not be a lasting and sustainable formula.
Kiril Petkov's attempt to propose a "Mario Draghi"-type supra-party cabinet is an attempt to tell the voters "I have to form a coalition with Peevski and Borisov, because there is no way, but I want to lie to you, presenting your candidacy for Prime Minister, which is equidistant from each of us - the political leaders", he believes.
Vasilev does not see a way out in the creation of a new "Euro-Atlantic coalition": "Coalitions based on Euro-Atlantic values do not produce anything. It was no coincidence that the Bulgarian voter did not go to vote after the Denkov cabinet, because they saw that everything that is said on television, radio and on the Internet by politicians is practically absolutely far from the truth. .
According to him, a new government of the type of "assembly" it cannot succeed and will inevitably fail.
"This is a problem that will continue to replicate until the electoral system or the political system changes, or until Radev enters politics – in a direct clash with Borisov", he is categorical.
The political scientist believes that the necessary parliamentary majorities can be found to make structural changes to the political system in our country, but he emphasized that the systemic parties benefit from the current fragmented environment: "The problem is not whether the political parties can. They can change everything, they will find a majority. The problem is that they cannot understand each other. The structural change of the political system or the change of the electoral system will not be able to be implemented in the next 51st Parliament. These people who rule today, this proportional system, in which the citizens are fed up with voting and in which the bought vote occupies a percentage ratio sufficient to bring in two parliamentary groups, these parties have no interest in changing the system.< /p>
Slavi Vassilev sees the only alternative for politics in our country is President Rumen Radev, who should come out on the political field with his party and personally lead it in the search for a way out of the crisis.