The fight in the DPS is not about the ethnic map, but about power and it can influence the entire party system. Voter turnout will be even lower, and if there is a new assembly for a government, it will bring them great electrical damage.
This is how political scientist Petar Cholakov described the political landscape in our country in an interview with BNR.
His prediction is that we will have a fractured parliament, which will pose an even greater challenge to party leaders to form a government.
In the show "Sunday 150" he commented on the crisis in the two dispatches:
"What is new in this pre-election situation is the war in the DPS, that is what is new and different. We have not had such a thing, there was tension in relation to previous chairmen of the party, but they quickly ended after their conflict with the honorary chairman. Now we have a radically different situation, because the "boy", as the honorary chairman calls him, carries a lot of weight – independent, financial, I would say also influence in the judicial system, in the prosecutor's office, and for this reason the turmoil in this party, I hope I am not a bad prophet, may reflect on the entire party system and the entire country."< /p>
According to the political scientist, the discord will reflect because "DPS is an ethnic party and claims to have a monopoly on the ethnic vote":
"The vast majority of the votes come from the Bulgarian Turks, Pomacs and the Roma, that's 90%, and if a cataclysm occurs there, stability can be disturbed.
The scandal, according to him, is a surprise even for the honorary chairman himself, because "he entrusted his kingdom to "the boy" and it turned out that it had a great appetite and hastened to seize all power".
"The movement had two presidents and everything again in "the boy" he was about to leave, but it was hasty, and from there arose the conflict between him and the Honorary Chairman. If he had waited a little bit, everything would have gone to him again", says Associate Professor Petar Cholakov.
According to him, it will be difficult to form a government because of the great fragmentation in the National Assembly after the elections.
"If we base ourselves on sociological agencies, we will have even lower voter turnout, which is dramatically low, we will have a parliament with even lower legitimacy. This means that in order to form a government it will start with very low confidence. So the challenges increase, the fragmentation of the Movement creates additional difficulties, because for more than 30 years it claims to be a balancer in the Bulgarian processes and is present. Now that we have two such political forces, it becomes even more difficult, so I have no reason for optimism," says Prof. Cholakov.