A failed tram coup – this is what political scientist Milen Zhelev called the "peculiar mass strike" on the air of the Bulgarian National Radio in the capital's ground transport.
According to him, the coup is about to be postponed "by a few months, and now there is a garbage crisis, which has also been escalating recently".
There will be money for salaries for a few months, after which we will find ourselves in the same conditions, but already in the heating season, and there will be much more serious consequences, the political scientist pointed out.
The unions have used the fair protest, he believes, and he did not rule out that the purpose of the protest was "for the citizens of Sofia to click their tongues against the mayor and accuse him".
"Now is the time for him to pound the table and act with bold reforms. (…) His chair is shaking. It is not certain whether he will be able to serve out his entire term."
The public media protest coincided with the transport protest and got lost in it, Zhelev noted. According to him, "these 15 million could have been given to the public media".
The big winners are the unions. There are people with political leanings in them, commented Milen Zhelev on the show "Predi visci". Public opinion would have turned against the strikers, but no one benefits from pitting one against the other, he also reports.
"Sofian residents realized that they were being made to look crazy."