Atanas Atanasov's candidacy is a litmus test for the state of the PP-DB coalition, can they to be together. This opinion was expressed to the BNR by the political scientist and university teacher Assoc. Tatiana Burudzhieva.
"After so many times there have been different votes, especially now around the election of the speaker of the parliament, the litmus is for "We continue the change" - will they take different positions and defend the coalition agreement. If they do not vote for this candidacy, I suspect that there will be a split in the PP-DB coalition," she specified.
According to Assoc. Burudzhieva, from the day the new deputies were sworn in, they started working for the next early parliamentary elections:
What they stated in their declarations at the beginning showed that they did not want, they said that there was a need for a government, but everyone put conditions on this government, which means that work will not be done. The job is now to fight for the chairman of the National Assembly, you understand - for the future acting prime minister".
In her words, if the people's representatives wanted the parliament to function, they could have voted that they would work according to the old Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly:
"The existence of rules makes it possible to construct the parliamentary groups. If it weren't for the fight for a caretaker prime minister only, the parliament could unclog its work. Apparently the fight is just about that, not getting work done. ... They do not want to work in this National Assembly, but want to understand what will happen with the official cabinet and in whose hands the power in the executive branch will be. This destroys one of the basic principles of democracy - the separation of powers. A third year loops the work of the parliament, because it deals only with what is done in the executive branch.