We have been observing three and a half years of continuous erosion of the main political institutions and branches of power. At the moment, a process of undermining the legitimacy of the parliament is underway. We may indeed find ourselves in an institutional crisis, also related to the legislative power. This will give impetus to the political crisis. This was stated by the political scientist Assoc. Ognyan Minchev on the air of Nova News.
„Like the rift between the status quo and change that emerged with the 2020 protests, the geopolitical West, and also the left-right rift – all of them make it impossible to unite the political factions into a stable majority at any time, he explained.
The political scientist said that it is difficult for him to judge whether the BSP will support Silvi Kirilov or continue to insist on his candidacy for the speaker of the parliament: “But what is beyond any doubt is that the blockade also follows from the opposition of several main figures in the political space in our country. We have the main figures of the status quo – Boyko Borisov and Delyan Peevski, we also have the figure of Rumen Radev, who is no longer satisfied with being the principal of a series of official governments over which he has complete control, but also wants a serious change that would guarantee him a prospective personal power. These transformations of the parliamentary factions are also related to Radev's attempts to organize his functional majority in this National Assembly, which would enable him to assume his role as the key political figure.“
According to the political scientist, it is obvious to everyone that Radev has a serious influence on the BSP, which is greater now than when Ninova was the leader of the party. According to him, we can expect the BSP to join the pro-presidential majority.
„It seems to me that in this situation we can be sure of one thing – Rumen Radev wants elections and wants a long enough period of his sole rule until these elections to lead the time after the eighth parliamentary elections. Some of the anti-establishment parties on the fringes of parliament also want an election, but I don't think the sane people in the mainstream parties want that. The series of seven elections in three and a half years deals a blow to the prestige and legitimacy of the parties and their leaders, Assoc. Minchev.
„Loss in new elections will be a continued decline in political influence. In the last elections, there was a revival of the “political market”. If in this situation we go to another early election, the collapse of the citizens' interest will be much more serious than what has been observed so far, and the ability of the systemic parties to convince their supporters and their fringes that they have the real opportunity to rule the country will already be reduced to a minimum“, he added.